The raw data on the changes in 2021 and 2022 are shown farther down the page. The newly released FBI data shows that reported violent crime (murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) fell by 3.5% in 2023, but they have revised the 2022 data to show a 4.5%...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece was also published at The New York Sun, The Blaze, Zero Hedge, The Gateway Pundit, The Ohio Star, The Tennessee Star, The Political Insider, Patriot Daily Press. The Highland County Press, Crime is a...
Trump was correct, as Crime Prevention Research Center president John R. Lott Jr. wrote in a detailed piece published the next day: In fact, Trump was correct about the increase in crime under Biden. While violent crime fell by 17 percent under Trump, Biden...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW-B1MbLNtQ Kamala Harris from when she was the District Attorney for San Francisco: “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA1VBCeJV3A Previously we noted that Democrat VP Nominee Gov Tim Walz said: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.” Here, Hillary Clinton supports civil and possibly...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r_xc09q9vo From Stossel TV: The FBI says self-defense with a gun is RARE, and their statistics support that. The legacy media, Hollywood, and left-wing politicians use that data to push gun control. Six days after the video was posted...
UPDATE: We have added ChatGBT's evaluation of the post below. Original Post: Despite what the media and the Bureau of Justice Statistics are noting, if you look at the percentage changes in crime rates under the Biden administration, there has never been such a large...
Our work pointing to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey and that it shows that violent crime has increased under Biden has gotten significant news attention. Amusingly, ABC News has refused to respond to requests for comment from...
Here is part of the article that the Washington Times just published. . . . Both are statistically unchanged from 2022 but are significantly higher than in 2020, the last year under President Trump. The data said Americans aren’t reporting some of the most common...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. It also appeared at The Daily Signal and in Estonian. . Understandably, we want to blame someone besides the 14-year-old who murdered four people last week at Apalachee High School in Georgia. People are shocked...
The list of people in the media claiming that crime is falling is endless. We have added ChatGBT's evaluation of this post at the end. DAVID MUIR: President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country David Muir, "Harris-Trump...
Dr. John Lott's Portion of Press Briefing, two discussions put together Complete Press Briefing Democrats what to claim that crime is falling despite the millions of illegal aliens coming into the country, so they conclude that illegal aliens couldn't be causing...