https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JdauQlV4pSg Why do Democrats worry that Community Watch Anti-crime signs will not be welcoming? A key 2008 DOJ meta-analysis, Does Neighborhood Watch Reduce Crime? reviewed 18 evaluations and concluded that the majority of programs...
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More Television Police Show Bias: Criminals & Terrorists Using Machine Guns, misleading claims about semi-automatic guns turned into machine guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C8sEZ9COCY Television crime shows continue to portray frequent murders with machine guns. The Crime Prevention Research Center has repeatedly shown that these depictions are far from reality, yet many shows still suggest that criminals...
At The Federalist: No, Gun Control Wouldn’t Have Prevented The Latest Trump Assassination Attempt
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at The Federalist. . Summary: If policymakers and advocates are serious about reducing such incidents, the focus needs to shift toward measures that directly address the factors involved. . As is so typical, just hours after the...
At Real Clear Politics: Political Violence and the Willful Self-Deception of the Left
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on the claims that the violence is coming from the right. It was also reprinted at Zero Hedge, Yahoo! News, MSN, The Ohio Press Network, Goodoil News, American Partisan, and Fairfield Times, Great Falls Leader, and...
New Florida law allows armed volunteers at houses of worship
For decades we have written extensively on the dangers of gun-free zones. Gradually gun-free zones have been eliminated. . A new state law set to take effect July 1 will allow churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship to use armed volunteers for...
In the New Hampshire Union Leader: ‘Gun-free’ Campuses are a Peril
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Union Leader with New Hampshire state Representative Samuel Farrington (R), who is the primary sponsor of the Campus Carry bill that will be voted on this coming week in the state Senate Judiciary Committee. . News media coverage...
So is there really a question of whether Trump reduced crime in DC? Did the Washington Post inaccurately report murder data to make the drop look smaller than it actually is?
The Washington Post doesn't really want to give President Trump credit for the drop in crime in DC. Please look at the graph above and notice that there was a discrete change in August and September 2025 (and the change only started about half way through August on...
Politicians Trading on Insider Information
With news that a U.S. soldier was arrested for winning $400,000 for Polymarket bets on Maduro's capture, there hasn't been a huge coverage of politicians voting on insider in their races on Kalshi. This isn't politicians betting on insider information on government...
Detroit Man Shoots Three of the Four Men who were trying to Attack Him
Prosecutors can take months to decide whether to pursue charges in a shooting, even when the person who pulled the trigger clearly acted in self-defense or in defense of others. In this case, however, Wayne County prosecutors moved quickly and determined that the...
CPRC in the News: New York Post, American Thinker, PJ Media, Ammoland, American Rifleman, and More
The TSN has also kept trans in a state of fearful paranoia by claiming a “trans genocide,” which has played a role in dramatically increasing the numbers of trans engaging in mass shooting attacks. Dr. John R. Lott puts trans at 0.73% of the...
Elon Musk’s Retweet of Our Video on FBI Data Errors Gets Over 45 Million Impressions
On April 15, 2026, Elon Musk retweeted our video with John Stossel on the errors in the FBI's active shooting data. Musk's retweet received over 45 million impressions. This is the second time that Musk as retweeted the video, and when he tweeted it out before it...
Police Murders Drop Sharply: Felonious Deaths Fell 17.2% in 2025 and 33.3% in Early 2026
Just as murders overall are falling, the murders of police is also declining the last couple of years, and the drop for police last year is about as large as the 20% drop in overall murders last year. The 53 officers murdered in 2025 is the lowest total since 2020. It...












