Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at The Federalist: There is a lot of attention on the Trump administration removing dozens of Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI officials involved in charging 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, but one area of politicization in the FBI and...
After suffering alarming spikes in violent crime, some cities are now reporting better news. But the past four years have been filled with debate over the national trends. Some say the government has been manipulating numbers. I spoke with a data expert about the how...
Asylum seekers have been involved in a series of deadly attacks in Germany, and police said that the latest attack today in Munich was by someone with an "extremist background." Today's attack was carried out by a failed asylum-seeker using a Mini Cooper. It...
UPDATED March 7th, 2025: We have previously put out our study on the FBI's active shooting reports. If you watch entertainment television police shows, you would think something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively (including shooting bystanders to...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Washington Times about President Trump's executive order on protecting the Second Amendment. . A new CBS/YouGov poll shows that 70 percent of Americans think President Trump is keeping his campaign promises. On Friday, Trump...
The Crime Prevention Research Center joined the Peace Officers Research Association of California, the California State Sheriff's Association, and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen in putting this Amicus brief together, though I suspect that most people...
An early morning attempted armed robbery in Chicago's Homan Square neighborhood ended with an exchange of gunfire and one suspect dead after the victim, who had a FOID card and Concealed Carry License, fired shots, police said. The incident took place around...
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to reinstate the federal death penalty and “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out...
On Friday, February 7th, 2025, President Trump signed a dramatic executive order that will undo the regulations put in effect by Biden. . By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby...
Dr. John Lott co-authored an op-ed with Wyoming state Senator Cheri Steinmetz about a bill to eliminate gun-free zones in the state. The Cowboy State Daily is Wyoming's largest state newspaper, and it is located in the state Capitol in Cheyenne, Wyoming. . Would you...
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 77% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that requiring voter photo ID is a reasonable measure to protect the integrity of elections – up slightly from 74% in 2022 and 2021. Just 17% disagree. As in...
We recently noted that Poland has started mandating firearms training for schoolchildren. Now, gun ranges are booming in Finland. The Czech Republic has also started a pilot army training program for high school students. Of course, Ukraine also did so, though they...