Apparently, the peaceful protestors outside the White House apparently weren't so peaceful. One fifth of the- there have been 750 officers hurt in the last week. One fifth of those have been in Washington, D.C. Most of those have been federal officers at Lafayette...
You would never know if from the media, but over the last five years black satisfaction with their local police departments has soared from 50% being at least somewhat satisfied in 2015 to 72% now. The rate for other minorities has also gone up slightly from 65% to...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times about liberals apparently Minneapolis and other major cities have finally re-opened, at least to looters and arsonists. For three days, police in Minneapolis and St. Paul were ordered to stand down as rioters...
The CPRC's Executive Director, Nikki Goeser, has an op-ed at Townhall that points out that while people focus on race, lots of other people have felt let down by the system. After you read this, if you live in Tennessee, you might want to email the governor and make...
The political bias by social media has continued. At the Crime Prevention Research Center, we have dealt with social media bias direction many times (see here for some of our posts). Here is Dr. John Lott's latest piece on political bias by Twitter. Twitter is not...
"The people in Polk County like guns, they have guns, I encourage them to own guns... And if you try to break into their homes to steal, to set fires, I'm highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns."Ken Suarez and Catherine Hawley,...
As we have pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people and outgun police. CBS again shows criminals using machine guns. SWAT (S3 E21 May 20, 2020) has a number of criminals using...
Dr. John Lott talked to One America News' John Hines about our work the CDC inflating the number of people who have died from the Coronavirus. Since this interview was recorded, the CDC released information showing a much lower rate of asymptomatic cases for the...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about the cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped what otherwise would have been mass public shootings and how rarely these cases get national news coverage. (Wednesday, May 27, 2020,...
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Frady about a range of issues dealing with the Coronavirus. They talked about gun cases that are being considered by the Supreme Court, including the case they recently considered involving New York City. They also discussed a range of...
As rioting rampages through the Twin Cities in Minnesota, black store owners have had to themselves protect their stores. Some have tried with their bare hands, while others have used guns. For those who oppose private gun ownership, these riots show the need From the...
Yet another mass murderer who supports gun control. Unfortunately, this case is not unique. The University of Connecticut student accused of killing two people and wounding another scrawled bizarre messages on the wall of his off-campus apartment,...