https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mprmJN9JWY&t=392s Dr. John Lott appeared on Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater to discuss the problem of misinformation in crime statistics and the root causes of rising crime rates. (Friday, October 3, 2025)
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PowerPoints from a Debate at the University of Connecticut Law School and a Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Unfortunately, there aren't videos of the presentations, but here are the PowerPoints From the University of Connecticut on October 28th: How does gun control affect public safety? University of Connecticut DebateDownload From the University of Pennsylvania on October...
NBC’s SVU: Television Police Show Bias on Illegal Aliens, Portrays ICE Agents as Villains Allowing Rape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWe1k1fzlS8 The season premiere of Law & Order: SVU cast Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as cold-hearted villains who obstruct the unit’s pursuit of a rapist (S27 E1 09 25 25). . In the episode, “In the Wind,”...
CPRC in the News: New York Post, Instapundit, MSN, American Thinker, Patriot Post, and More
Some of these articles were extremely long ones. “A new Bureau of Justice Statistics report” shows “Trump was right” last year “when he said, ‘Crime here is up and through the roof,’” reports John R. Lott at RealClearPolitics. The media focused on the...
Democrat Group Shows How Democrats have Moved Far Left on Gun Control and Claims it is Hurting Them Electorally
A new Democrat group named Welcome has come out with a report on whether the party's shift to the left has helped the party -- there answer is "no." For example, the share of Democrat members of congress who cosponsored an assault weapon ban went from 41% during the...
Argentina: Interview with security specialist John Lott: “Crime decreases if victims can defend themselves.”During a recent visit to Argentina, he highlighted several ways to reduce our country’s high crime rate using proven methods around the world.
This is an interview that Dr. John Lott did while he was in Argentina. . Renowned American economist John Lott granted us an exclusive interview after his presentation the previous day to a select group of attendees at a downtown hotel in Buenos Aires. This event was...
America’s Dramatic Decline in Homicide Clearance Rates (Arrest Rates) from 1965 to 2024: Falling From 91 to 52 Percent
The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) shows a dramatic drop in arrest rates for homicides over the last 60 years -- a 43 percent, 39 percentage point, drop. The Excel file with the data is available here. fbi_murder_rate_1965_2004Download
UPDATED: 2023 Data: Comparing Total Vehicle Deaths to Total Firearm Deaths for those Under Age 18 (Homicides or Murder, Unintentional, Suicide, and Undetermined), also numbers for those under 15.
For those under 18, vehicle deaths are consistently greater than those from firearms. When you use the FBI murder data, the vehicle deaths exceed the firearm deaths for 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023 and likely 2021, though the FBI data isn’t available for that year. The...
On the Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham Show: To Discuss the Problems with Crime Data
Dr. John Lott appeared on the Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham Show to explain how the democrats are trying to hide crime data. See also Dr. Lott's new investigative piece based on our research at Real Clear Investigations titled "Unaccountable: The FBI's Strange...
Another Attack in a Gun-free Zone: Active shooter at Oklahoma State University dorm leaves 3 wounded
As we have pointed out before, murderers who plan on killing lots of people pick places where their victims are unable to defend themselves (see also here). There was a shooting in the Oklahoma State University dorms, but as the picture above shows, firearms are...
Most Likely Voters Approve of Trump Finding and Deporting Illegal Aliens and Think Trump Can Use the National Guard to Defend ICE Offices
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of 1,184 likely voters on October 7th to 9th finds that 53% of Likely U.S. voters support Trump finding and deporting illegal aliens, including 39% who Strongly Support the president’s policy. Forty-three...
More Television Crime Show Bias: Terrorists Using Machine Guns in London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjX3mHdUtfg Apparently another TV show doesn’t think the strict gun control in the UK is working too well. As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are...