https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsQOuvrh1dk As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, ABC's’ Will Trent is no different (Season 2, Episode...
The news media focuses on the FBI data to show that murders are falling. We have previously reported the problems with the FBI violent and property compared to the National Crime Victimization Survey data (here and here). But it turns out that the FBI murder data also...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2_3QjE19JQ Dr. John Lott spoke in Sao Paulo, Brazil on July 5th about how to stop crime and what to do when law enforcement isn't doing its job. There is an audio problem at the very beginning, but it is fixed quickly. The Portuguese...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtDOQHoosLk This is one reason that gun control advocates are extremely upset about JD Vance being Trump's vice presidential nominee. JD Vance’s grandmother, who raised him, had 19 loaded handguns in her home when she died. He says that...
As we have pointed out before, there are lots of problems with crime data from across the country. Now comes concern that the reported drop in crimes in Oakland, California might be about half what the city is claiming. . . . Statistics published by the police...
“They also got such a null response from the police that they rarely even bother reporting crimes anymore, because nothing happens,” Elon Musk wrote last year. Joseph Pisani, Alexa Corse, and Micah Maidenberg, "Elon Musk Says He Will Move X and SpaceX Headquarters Out...
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by the editor of America's First Freedom, Frank Miniter, about the problems with the FBI crime data. Our previous research on this topic can be found here and here. Our op-eds on this are available here and here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u3iOjM9oQs As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, ABC's’ The Rookie is no different (Season 6, Episode...
According to gun expert and founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) John Lott, who served as the senior advisor for Research and Statistics in the Office of Justice Programs and then the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9-AVdmPRcM As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, CBS’ FBI Most Wanted is no different (Season 5 Episode...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review. . ‘Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and adolescents,” U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy saidlast week, calling the situation a “public health crisis.” It has been a favorite talking point of the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCB5gXFIuEM In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison inmates only broke down the numbers for uses in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few...