"Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” It’s the conclusion of the bipartisan 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III. In 2012, the...
A 2022 study from the Crime Prevention Research Center looked at changes in crime and killings of police after adopting constitutional carry. Using data from 13 states, researchers found that the drop in murder is statistically significant, but the change in...
We updated a new research paper that we hope you agree is very important. Please download and read it here. . Abstract . The FBI tracks active shooting cases—where individuals attempt to kill people in public places, excluding those tied to robberies or gang violence....
Dr. Lott has a new post at American Liberty. The CPRC commissioned a new survey by McLaughlin & Associates of 1,000 general election American voters. Despite all the claims about support for gun control, only 19% of voters think passing more gun control will...
American Liberty ran something that we had put together. A new survey titled “Exposure to Mass Shootings in the United States: A National Survey” and published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (SPPE) claims that approximately 6.95% of U.S....
Here is a recording of one of the three different talks that Dr. John Lott's presented at the 2025 NRA meetings in Atlanta. Here is a link to the book with the graphs that the talk was based on and the two video that he showed....
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Cunningham on his WLW show to discuss the recent school shooting at Florida State University. They also discussed our latest research, "Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?" (Monday, April 21,...
Here is a recording of one of the three different talks that Dr. John Lott's presented at the 2025 NRA meetings in Atlanta. Also provided below is a copy of his PowerPoint and the video that he showed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r_xc09q9vo...
John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, has extensively studied the global phenomenon of mass violence. Lott’s research debunks the common misconception that America leads the world in mass shootings or school violence. “While the U.S. had about...
A study of 2008 data by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office found that while illegal aliens made up 9 percent of Arizona’s population, illegal aliens accounted for 21.8 percent of felonies sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court. In 2008, there were 5,173...
Vehicle attacks are able to harm a lot of people. A driver plowed a car into a crowd at a Filipino festival in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday night, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than two dozen others, authorities said Sunday. Police say the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmAoY7lNCU As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns...