Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics that is co-authored with Richard Porter. Also published at TIPPSInsight and CNAV News. There was no Labor Day holiday for Chicago criminals, who murdered 9 people and wounded another 51; most (if not all) were Black...
Voters continue to favor requiring photo ID to vote—with support virtually unchanged from 2021. It is a key election integrity measure that President Donald Trump has openly championed—by more than a 3-to-1 margin. In recent surveys, 73% of likely U.S. voters say this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdIRArj8sNE Dr. John Lott talked to John Hines on One America News about crimes in Washington, D.C. They were specifically discussing Dr. Lott's new op-ed at the New York Post titled "DC is murder-free thanks to Trump — but his haters...
Vince Coglianese on his national radio show on August 25th discusses our estimates of the probability that the drop in D.C.'s homicide rate after Trump federalization of policing is just a random occurrence. Vince Coglianese: "The Great John Lott from the Crime...
The top story on the Fox News website features an interview Dr. John Lott did on the Minneapolis and other mass murderers targeting gun-free zones. John Lott, the founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital about some of the...
The New York Times has a new piece by a gun control advocate who claims that increasing law enforcement in D.C. will be either "needless" or counterproductive. At least gun control advocates are consistent, they don’t want law enforcement to protect people at the same...
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie have a new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal about the media bias in covering mass shootings. . Once again a mass shooter has struck and the media is refusing to acknowledge why he chose his target. Like other killers, he...
A new analysis by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) found that the FBI has understated the number of times armed civilians have stopped active shooter incidents in the United States. According to the FBI, civilians stopped just 14 out of 374 active shooter...
https://youtu.be/3QgDb2CVwEQ?feature=shared&t=1635 The President's Daily Brief Situation Report is hosted by former CIA operations officer Mike Baker. He talked to Dr. John Lott about accusations that the Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department manipulated...
Updated August 27, 2025: You would think the empirical evidence would be overwhelming at some point. When the Aurora, Colorado Batman movie theater shooter attacked, seven movie theaters were showing "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20th within 20 minutes of the...
It turns out that it wasn't an accident that attack in Minneapolis occurred at a gun-free zone. The murderer's manifesto makes it clear that he purposely picked a gun-free zone. The murderer wrote his manifesto in Russian, but here is the relevant translation. "I...
The suspected gunman in a horrific church and school shooting in Minnesota took his own life after a rampage cops say killed at least two people and wounded as many as 20 others, with victims including kids and adults. Police said the unidentified shooter -- who was...