Dr. John Lott appeared on the Armed American Radio show to celebrate AAR‘s 15 years on air. (Sunday, April 28, 2024, from 9:45 to 9:53 PM ET)
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On John Fredericks Radio Show: Crime Wave Unprecedented in America
Dr. John Lott appeared on John Fredericks Radio Show to discuss his new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled "The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It: The decline in reported crimes is a function of less reporting, not less crime." (Tuesday, April 30,...
On the Lars Larson Show: To Discuss the Collapse in Law Enforcement
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on his national radio shows about his new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled "The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It: The decline in reported crimes is a function of less reporting, not less crime." (Thursday,...
On RealClearPolitics: To Discuss Less Reporting, Not Less Crime
Dr. John Lott appeared on RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 to discuss reports that crime rates are declining. 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." Carl Cannon,...
On Washington Times’ Bold & Blunt Podcast: Crime on the decline? Au contraire!
Dr. John Lott talked to Cheryl Chumley on the Washington Times' Bold & Blunt Podcast about his new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled "The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It: The decline in reported crimes is a function of less reporting,...
On Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham: To Discuss Less Reporting, Not Less Crime
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...
Worth Listening to: On KFBC’s Cheyenne Today: To Discuss Crime Statistics, Gun-Free Zones, and Media Bias
Dr. John Lott talked to Kerri Hayden-Bates on KFBC's Cheyenne Today about his new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled "The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It." They also discussed the danger of gun-free zones and the biased media coverage of gun...
Media Bias on TV Police Shows: Lots of Drug Dealers Using Machine Guns to Fight Law Enforcement
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,...
On TruBlu’s Strictly Speaking with Bob Frank: Discussing a wide range of crime and gun issues
https://youtu.be/fhLKD8dul6E Dr. John Lott talked to Bob Frank on Tru Blu's Strictly Speaking for an hour about various topics, including Biden’s unconstitutional federal ‘Red Flag’ center, the collapse in law enforcement, and AI’s left-wing bias on crime and gun...
On The Wilkow Majority: To Discuss Decline in Reported Crimes
Dr. John Lott talked to Andrew Wilkow on SiriusXM's The Wilkow Majority about his new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled "The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It." (Monday, April 29, 2024, from 12:05 to 12:23 PM)
An Ex-Marine, who planned a racist mass shooting to kill white people, targeted a gun-free zone
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...
At Townhall: The FBI’s Crime Data Have Real Problems
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...