The Glenn Beck Show discussed our Real Clear Investigation piece on the FBI and violent crime. Dr. Lott's new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations is here: "Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats." Glenn Beck's show is listened to by 8.75...
A writer at the Kansas City Star, David Mastio, received a response from the FBI (we never did). Mastio's bottom line is: "Here’s what I’ve learned in decades of covering Washington: When bad news is false, agency press people go out of their way to make it crystal...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEQu-mWsMsM Fox News' Gutfeld! discussed our Real Clear Investigation piece on the FBI and violent crime. Dr. Lott’s new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations is here: “Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats.”...
The Dan Bongino Show discussed our Real Clear Investigation piece on the FBI and violent crime. Dr. Lott's new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations is here: “Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats.” Glenn Beck's show is listened to by 8.5...
Dr. John Lott talked to KTRH's Corey Olson about our work on how the media and Democrats are misleading Americans about the crime statistics. September 25, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has been hit with numerous “fact-checks” on the campaign trail that have cited FBI statistics to maintain violent crime is falling in America. However, the bureau quietly adjusted its figures for 2022 in recent weeks — and...
Dr. John Lott has a new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations. It also appeared at Alpha News, Patriot Post, Tipp Insights. . When the FBI originally released the "final" crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime...
Not only are over 90% of border agents who normally guard the border moved to processing illegal aliens, but the passive monitoring system has huge holes. . Nearly one-third of the cameras in the Border Patrol’s primary surveillance system along the southern U.S....
As we have pointed out many times, the U.S. Department of Justice has two measures of crime: the FBI measure of reported crime and the Bureau of Justice Statistics measure of total crime. The relationship between these two measures is quite shocking for the Biden...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Missoulian newspaper in Missoula, Montana. . Two constitutional initiatives to change how Montanans vote will be on the ballot in November, and both are deceptive. Two of them will help Democrats and ensure, ironically,...
While the latest Rasmussen Reports survey of Likely U.S. Voters in the United States finds 51% want stricter gun control laws, 41% disagree. But the breakdown is interesting. Hispanics slightly oppose stricter gun control. Democrats overwhelmingly support stricter gun...
USA Today’s headline on the FBI's reported crime data released in September 2023 claims “Violent crime dropped for second straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.” There are two errors in their headline. First, that it is the FBI’s measure of reported crime...