The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is launching an investigationinto the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegedly failing to report complete and accurate national crime data, which the federal law enforcement agency was caught...
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At The Federalist: The FBI Is Lying About Violent Crime To Help Democrats Win This Election:
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist on the FBI Just days before an election in which crime has been a major issue, the FBI continues to hide its revisions to data The FBI has a big transparency problem. For a year, the media has been using the FBI’s...
At Real Clear Politics: First, Second, Fourth Amendments Endangered by Kamala Harris
Dr, John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Real Clear Politics. It also appeared at Zero Hedge, All Sides, and Patriot Post. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats claim they are the party of freedom. In Harris’ interview on Club Shay Shay on Monday,...
Michael Bloomberg’s The Trace Worried about Dr. John Lott Joining the Trump Administration
Who knows what the outcome of the election on November 5th will be, but gun control activists are already very worried about what it would mean for gun control. Gun control groups, such as Michael Bloomberg's The Trace, have jumped ahead and are concerned about the...
U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee’s Chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) investigating FBI over ‘quietly’ revised crime statistics
Our research has resulted in the House calling out the FBI for hiding its revision in crime statistics. The letter by Rep. James Comer is shown at the end. . Here is a story on the investigation that was in the Washington Times. A related story is available at Fox...
A Rare Defensive Gun Use on Television that Worked Out Well: Apple’s Bad Monkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=295LYp9yfVw Apple's Bad Monkey recently showed a case where a criminal took away a civilian's permitted concealed handgun and used it to shoot at a former police officer. Of course, television show bias against guns is never-ending. It...
Why Ballot Drop Boxes are Dangerous: Hundreds of Ballots Destroyed in Fires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qOKHtx9sm8 Here is a video from Portland's KATU TV about a ballot drop box set on fire in Clark Count, Washington. Hundreds of ballots were reportedly destroyed. The Vancouver Police Department reports that another ballot box was set...
CPRC Report in the Real Clear Investigations in the News: Fox News, Daily Caller, Blazemedia, Law Enforcement Today, America’s 1st Freedom, Reason, and more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSbeNHT99PM Crime and data expert John Lott spoke to Fox News Digital regarding how the FBI updated its violent crime stats for 2022, showing an increase in violent crimes, not a decrease. Greg Wehner, "Bullets fly at Detroit apartment...
Joe Rogan and Donald Trump Discussed the Crime Prevention Research Center’s Work on the FBI’s Revised Crime Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcJfMTYC320 Joe Rogan and Donald Trump discussed the Crime Prevention Research Center's work in the October 25, 2024, interview (though the center's work was not mentioned by name). Specifically, they discussed the FBI's revised...
CPRC in the News: Washington Times, One America News, Townhall, Journal Gazette (Indianapolis, Indiana), and much more
Experts, though, questioned the value of registration numbers in the first place. John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said it’s rare that guns are left at the scene of crimes unless the shooter was killed or seriously injured — in...
More Fox News Coverage of Our Report at Real Clear Investigations: Embattled prosecutors Gascon, Foxx endorse Harris, say Trump ‘would make us all less safe’
Our research at Real Clear Investigations on the "Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats" continues to receive extensive media attention. The top of this article also contains a video interview with me. . . . While the endorsement from Foxx, Gascon and...
More Fox News Coverage of Our Report at Real Clear Investigations: ABC debate fact-check of Trump ages poorly as FBI quietly revises violent crime statistics up
Our research at Real Clear Investigations on the "Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats" continues to receive extensive media attention. A fact-check in the ABC News presidential debate has aged poorly after the FBI quietly made a stunning...











