Brianna Robinson, who has about 83,000 followers, has a post using some of our research.
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Since 2013, the Columbus Police Department Reported 1.9 Million Case, But Did Include 119,000 criminal offenses — 5.3% of cases (multiple offenses are sometimes involved in one case).
Cleveland isn't the only city that has been accused of under reporting crime rates. Chicago and Philadelphia has faced similar claims in the past. Since 2013, the department submitted 1.9 million case reports to OIBRS. About 119,000 criminal offenses weren't...
Updated Detailed Information on Mass Public Shootings from 1998 to 2024
Many graphs using the data are shown at the end of the post. When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our...
UPDATED: New Orleans terror attack: ISIS Flag in Truck, At Least 14 Murdered, Dozens Injured, Had Multiple IEDs, FBI looking for other suspects in New Orleans terror attack, Killer was ‘not solely responsible’
UPDATE: The number murdered has now reached 14. Original Post: Yet another mass murder with a vehicle. It just makes it clear that terrorists can murder people in many different ways. Besides using the truck, the murderer reportedly made multiple IEDs. The attacker...
In Newspapers Across Montana: The death penalty saves lives and tax dollars
This piece by Dr. John Lott appeared in the Billings Gazette, Helena Independent Record, Missoulian, Montana Standard, and the Ravioli Republic, all in Montana. President Joe Biden has recently commuted death sentences to life sentences for 37 of the 40 men who are on...
Media Bias on TV Show: Another bad outcome where a Concealed Handgun Permit Holder is a criminal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHqQc-WtLww Unfortunately, television police shows always seem to have something go wrong with a concealed handgun permit holder, either being fatally shot by the criminal without stopping the...
At The Federalist: Contrary To Media Claims, Deporting Illegal Alien Criminals Will Save Taxpayers More Than It Costs
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist with a deep dive into the numbers. . In testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, American Immigration Council (AIC) Senior Fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick remarked last week that mass deportations would...
Gallup: Americans See Guns as Enhancing Home Safety
By a two-to-one margin, Gallup finds that Americans believe that a gun in the home makes people safer. That is a big change from when the question was first asked in 2000 when Americans by a 51-to-35 percent margin thought that the opposite was true. . Currently, 64%...
Yet more examples on CBS’s police shows having criminals use machine guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y45-7-4Bs-M 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...
CPRC in the News: Just the News, Law Enforcement Today, The Tennessee Star, New American, and More
new report based on data from the U.S. Department of Justice suggests that crimes committed by illegal migrants cost U.S. taxpayers at least $166.5 billion, and the severity of those crimes greatly exceeds that of typical American norms. The report was written...
Felony Conviction Rates by Race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9zESruhUbI There are some different estimates for the percentage of males who have felony convictions by race, but the relative ranking is clear, with black males having the highest rate among black males followed by Hispanic males....
CPRC in the News: Issues & Insights, Townhall, American Thinker, American Liberty, and other
Black Guns Matter founder Maj Toure noted that over 90 percent of mass shootings happen in “gun-free zones,” a figure that was revealed by John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center. . . . Jeff Charles, "Here They Go Again: Anti-Gunners Rush to...