https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lora7LDlqk 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 is no different (Season 6 Episode 9, April...
Dr. John Lott appeared on the national Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham to discuss the real reason crime is down across the nation. See also Dr. Lott's new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled "The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It: The decline in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l_TMTqdz4U 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 rifles,...
Strangely, it was very difficult to find a picture of Joshua Cobb, the ex-Marine who made this threat, in any news story outside of the local media market. "As of today I have officially began planning my attack. It is going to take place in 2023 in the state of New...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall that continues our investigation into the problems with the FBI crime data. The news media relies almost exclusively on FBI data to report on changes in crime rates. But there is strong evidence that FBI data...
Here is the letter that the WSJ published in response to Dr. John Lott's op-ed. . Our New Shoplifting Policy: Employees are being told not to confront store theft. . I agree with John Lott (“The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It,” op-ed, April 25) that...
Rasmussen Reports has done several polls over the year asking whether likely voters in America think that violent crime is getting worse. We wanted to compare polls over the last year to see if there has been a change in people's views. But despite the media's attempt...
When USA Today had two articles claiming that Trump was wrong in claiming that crime was increasing, Dr. John Lott submitted the following letter to the editor, but the newspaper didn't run the letter. Dear Letters Editor: USA Today erroneously dismisses former...
"One false claim by @JoeBiden after another," Crime Prevention Research Center president John R Lott Jr. wrote. . . . Alexander Hall, "Biden takes heat over strange cannibal story: 'Like something out of a bad script'," Fox News, April 20, 2024. The Bureau of Justice...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKgEAWUyXHs 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’ NCIS Hawaii is no different (Season 3 Episode 2,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmmu_RyCFzY Dr. John Lott appeared on Redacted with Clayton Morris to discuss his piece in the Wall Street Journal on whether crime rates are rising or falling? From the discussion at Redacted: Corporate media is telling us that crime...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlFjnFij5F8 The Crime Prevention Research Center often points out the issue of marginal deterrence. Examples that we point to include mass public shooters. Suppose the Nashville Covenant School mass murderer had lived and faced six life...