A new National Survey of 1,072 U.S. Likely Voters Conducted by Rasmussen Reports over May 1 and 4-5, 2025 shows that all groups except for liberals think that the news media is biased in favor of Democrats. Blacks and Hispanics actually believe that the news media...
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More Television Police Show Bias: Robbers using Machine Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6QANZo91Ok 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...
Another Book Translated into Portuguese: “Gun Control Myths: How politicians, the media, and botched ‘studies’ have twisted the facts on gun control.” This is Lott’s Fourth Book in Portuguese.
This is Dr. John Lott's fourth book to be translated into Portuguese. . Mitos sobre o desarmamento, de John Lott Jr. . Nesta obra, o autor realiza uma análise incisiva das falácias que permeiam os debates sobre a posse de armas, desafiando, com dados e argumentos...
Greg Gutfeld on Fox’s The Five Using the Data on Crime by Illegals the Crime Prevention Research Center Put Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG-WYRAwrMo There are a number of pieces of information on this issue that we provided Greg Gutfeld. 1) Last year, the Biden administration admitted that 9% of the so-called "non-detained" illegals who were released into the US had...
Six People in Texas Charged in Vote Harvesting Case
"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...
UPDATED: New Research: Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?
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....
CPRC in the News: North Carolina Newsline, The Carolina Journal, Report 24, Real Clear Politics, Arizona Sun Times, and more
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...
At American Liberty: Only 1 In 5 Americans Think Gun Control Reduces Crime
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...
At American Liberty: The Disconnect Between Mass Shooting Stats And Reality
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....
Talk: Gun Control Myths
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....
On Cincinnatti’s Giant 50,000 Watts WLW: The Florida State University Shooting and Our New Research on Active Shootings
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,...
CPRC in the News: The Federalist, Hot Air (2), Bearing Arms, Ammoland, and More
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...











