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...
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How has Americans’ Perception of Violent Crime Changed Over the Last Year?
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...
Letter Submitted to USA Today: Responding to “FBI data shows America is seeing a ‘considerable’ drop in crime. Trump says the opposite.”
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...
CPRC in the News: Fox News, Washington Times, The Week, Instapundit, City Journal, and More
"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...
Media Bias on TV Police Shows: Lots of Criminals Using Machine Guns to Free Prisoners
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,...
On Redacted: “Crime is ACTUALLY Skyrocketing Under President Biden”
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...
Television Cop Show Illustrates the Notion of Marginal Deterrence in 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...
CPRC in the News: Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Instapundit, Reuters, Sun Sentinel, and more
. . . Writing in The Federalist, a conservative online magazine, Crime Prevention Research Center President John Lott said the laws don’t give wrongly accused gun owners enough power to protect their interests. “Congress never authorized the U.S. Department of Justice...
At The Tennessean: My husband was killed in a ‘gun free zone.’ Arm teachers for safety and to save lives.
The CPRC's Nikki Goeser has a new op-ed in the Tennessean. . My husband Ben and I used to run a mobile karaoke business in Nashville. . Every Thursday evening, we would load up our vehicle and head to a popular restaurant to help facilitate a night of good music and...
Talking to Colion Noir: On Rising Crime and the Bias in Artificial Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxGcyl1IgEs&t=4s Colion Noir talked to Dr. John Lott about our research on how AI chatbots' biases on crime and gun control. They also discussed our research on the collapse in law enforcement and the rise in crime.
Woman found guilty of all 52 charges of voter fraud
A jury has returned a guilty verdict for the trial of Kim Taylor, who was facing dozens of voter fraud charges. Kim Taylor, the wife of Woodbury County Supervisor Jeremy Taylor, was facing 52 total voter-fraud-related charges in federal court. She was found guilty of...
Liberal Political Bias on TV: CBS’ FBI Most Wanted slams George Santos. Why not Biden or another Democrat? Would they ever do the same to a Democrat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zoKnZVeeA CBS' FBI "Most Wanted" raises former Republican Congressman George Santos as their example of a liar (Season 1, Episode 2, February 20, 2024). It is a very small example, but when all the other consistent liberal biases in...











