This video has been posted repeatedly on the Fox News website, including here on November 9th, though this time it was on the Spanish version of Fox News. Here is the English version of the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSbeNHT99PM FBI actualización de los...
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2022 are available here. Abstract After a spike in 2022, the number of Concealed Carry Permit holders across the United States fell for a second consecutive...
Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner had this discussion on our recent piece at Real Clear Investigations. . The cost of crime from 662,000 criminal illegal migrants sought for deportation has been pegged at three times the much-hyped price of President-elect Donald...
The Crime Prevention Research Center first flagged the FBI’s quiet adjustment in a story that was published by RealClearInvestigations. Jordan and Biggs are demanding all documentation and communication related to the “FBI’s process for updating” the data as...
We will shortly be releasing a Real Clear Investigations analysis based on estimates developed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) suggests that crime by illegal aliens who entered the U.S. by July 21, 2024, cost the country some...
A recent national survey by Rasmussen Reports conducted in August reveals that 32% of likely U.S. voters believe that election officials in their state have either done nothing to prevent illegal immigrants from voting or have not addressed the issue at all....
Our new research paper is available to read here. Abstract In 2021 we wrote a short paper noting that truncating the sample when estimating the effect of right to carry laws on crime could be biased by comparisons to states that already adopted the law, instead of...
According to Gallup's Nov. 21 report, gun ownership among U.S. adults remains near 30% overall, but the ownership rate among Republican women rose from 19% in 2007-2012 to 33% in 2019-2024. Among Republican men it rose slightly from 57% in 2007-2012 to 60% in...
Gun Talk Radio discussed a suggestion to put Dr. John Lott in charge of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Here is part of their discussion. Below is a discussion from Michael Bloomberg's The Trace where they are worried about Dr. Lott running that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knLjFjC77g4 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...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist. The FBI has a big transparency problem. For a year, the media has been using the FBI’s estimates of reported crime to claim that crime has been falling. When the FBI released its numbers for 2023 in September...
By a 59% to 33% likely voters are concerned about vote-by-mail making cheating easier. Every group but Democrats, liberals, those making over $200,000, and those who went to graduate school thinks that mail-in ballots make vote fraud easier. While all the other groups...