Some of these articles were extremely long ones. “A new Bureau of Justice Statistics report” shows “Trump was right” last year “when he said, ‘Crime here is up and through the roof,’” reports John R. Lott at RealClearPolitics. The media focused on the...
A new Democrat group named Welcome has come out with a report on whether the party's shift to the left has helped the party -- there answer is "no." For example, the share of Democrat members of congress who cosponsored an assault weapon ban went from 41% during the...
This is an interview that Dr. John Lott did while he was in Argentina. . Renowned American economist John Lott granted us an exclusive interview after his presentation the previous day to a select group of attendees at a downtown hotel in Buenos Aires. This event was...
The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) shows a dramatic drop in arrest rates for homicides over the last 60 years -- a 43 percent, 39 percentage point, drop. The Excel file with the data is available here. fbi_murder_rate_1965_2004Download
For those under 18, vehicle deaths are consistently greater than those from firearms. When you use the FBI murder data, the vehicle deaths exceed the firearm deaths for 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023 and likely 2021, though the FBI data isn’t available for that year. The...
Dr. John Lott appeared on the Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham Show to explain how the democrats are trying to hide crime data. See also Dr. Lott's new investigative piece based on our research at Real Clear Investigations titled "Unaccountable: The FBI's Strange...
As we have pointed out before, murderers who plan on killing lots of people pick places where their victims are unable to defend themselves (see also here). There was a shooting in the Oklahoma State University dorms, but as the picture above shows, firearms are...
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of 1,184 likely voters on October 7th to 9th finds that 53% of Likely U.S. voters support Trump finding and deporting illegal aliens, including 39% who Strongly Support the president’s policy. Forty-three...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjX3mHdUtfg Apparently another TV show doesn’t think the strict gun control in the UK is working too well. As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. It was also published in the Tennessee Star, Alpha News, and the Herald/Review (Sierra Vista, AZ). . During last year’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump said violent crime was...
The Trump administration is making it clear they are only arrest people who are illegally having a gun. Trump also made it clear that they are talking to people about national reciprocity for concealed carry. The entire press conference is available here. Transcript:...
Here is another article that has come out from Dr. John Lott's talks in Argentina. . October 15, 2025. Three months ago, at the NH Tango Hotel, convened by the Federation of Legitimate Users of Argentina (FLUA) and the Association of Legitimate Users of the Province...