Tangle conducted individual interviews with the left wing Brennan Center's Ames Grawert, The Manhattan Institutes' Robert VerBruggen, and CPRC's Dr. John Lott on the issue of whether crime is increasing. It would have been much more useful if everyone was in the same...
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Under Kamala Harris’ Tenure as Border Czar, The Biden-Harris administration released into the U.S. 425,431 convicted criminals, 13,099 murderers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXOxBVpsk3k The Biden-Harris administration has released into the U.S. communities a significant number of noncitizens with serious criminal backgrounds, including 13,099 convicted of murder and 1,845 accused of murder, alongside...
At the Federalist: AI Chatbots Are Programmed To Spew Democrat Gun Control Narratives
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots will play a critical role in the upcoming elections as voters use AI to seek information on candidates and issues. Most recently, Amazon’s Alexa has come under scathing...
CPRC in the News: Washington Times, Newsweek, Red State, Akron Beacon Journal, Wyoming Tribune Eagle, and much more.
John Lott of the Crime Research Center points out that the government maintains two crime measures. The first is the Uniform Crime Reporting program, which is based on crimes reported to the police and forwarded to the FBI. How these reports are filed and reported was...
New U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Report Extensively Cites Dr. John Lott, “Federal Efforts in Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Victims of Violent Crime”
The complete copy of the report is available here. Here are some of the mentions of Dr. Lott research and testimony that were spread out throughout the report. The video of Lott's testimony before the commission is available here. Comments about the reaction of...
Another TV Character: “Wow, that is why I do not like guns.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlX9nwGBCnA This episode of Fox’s “The Finder” was released on February 2, 2012, and it has a standard line in so many television and movies where characters (in this case the main character, Walter Sherman, played by Geoff...
Fox News Discusses Our Work: “Violent crimes have increased under Biden-Harris admin despite Dems’ denials: expert”
Fox News reporter Emma Colton interviewed Dr. John Lott for this news article. This article was also translated into Spanish via "Tripulante Mx," Polish, and Brazilian. . . . . "When David Muir goes and says the FBI shows that crime is down, that's not what the FBI is...
Another Prominent Democrat Calls for Media Censorship: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls for Reigning in Media Misinformation
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pwU_dsOGUBQ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "You know, I do think that several members of Congress in some of my discussions have brought up media literacy, because that is a part of what happened here. And we’re going to have to figure out...
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow talks about the Hostility of Progressives Towards Dr. Lott
John Lott Jr., former senior adviser for research and statistics at the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, was one of the witnesses at the hearing that had adduced the data on which the commission’s report is based. (Lott has testified before the...
New 2023 FBI Reported Crime Data is Out, FBI Data Adjusted for Previous Years, In 2022, the FBI had Previously Shown Reported Violent Crime was down -2.1%, but Now Up 4.5%. A net change of 80,029 more violent crimes. The media refuses to Cover Data on Total Violent Crime.
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%...
At Real Clear Politics: Media Push Misleading Crime Stats To Protect Democrat Narrative
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...
CPRC in the News: Washington Examiner, NewsMax, Issues & Insights, Legal Insurrection, Issues & Insight, American Thinker, and much more
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...












