Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Martinez on his national radio show about the aftermath of the George Floyd killing in Minneapolis. Some related information is available here: "Liberal politicians who order police to stand down are the same people who want to ban guns,"...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about the fact that a bad police officer is not necessarily a racist police officer. They discussed the research of the CRPC on police shootings. (Friday, June 5th, 2020, 8:35 to 8:46 AM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Reardon on the giant 50,000 Watt KMOX-AM about the piece that he had on media bias at Real Clear Politics. (Tuesday, June 9, 2020, from 3:20 to 3:30 PM)
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on how what happened to Senator Tom Cotton at the New York Times is actually an all too common story. On Sunday, New York Times opinion editor James Bennet resigned after daring to publish an opinion column by...
Dr. John Lott has a piece on the claims about systematic racism by police at the Federalist. Police officer Derek Chauvin’s killing of a black man, George Floyd, this past week launched protests and riots across the country. Despite there being no evidence yet that...
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on Armed American Radio about what are people supposed to do when the police are told that they have to stand down and violence erupts. At The Washington Times: Liberal Politicians Who Order Police To Stand Down Are The Same People...
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,...