"You go 13 days without a homicide occurring, those homicides would have invariably been very heavily Black," John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. "And so those lives, you have Blacks who didn't...
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On Guns.com: To Discuss Guns, Carry, and Court Cases
https://youtu.be/M9fPk_gU_yQ Dr. John Lott talked to the Guns.com crew at SHOT Show 2026 about a wide range of gun policy issues, including gun-free zones potentially attracting attackers, lawful concealed carry reducing harm, permitting costs and delays discouraging...
On The Tudor Dixon Podcast: Obama vs. Trump on Deportations, Crime & the Immigration Narrative
https://youtu.be/-2cjMx3Ku_I?si=1HS-D5sCZksSQRyu Dr. John Lott appeared on The Tudor Dixon Podcast to discuss the real deportation records under Barack Obama and Donald Trump, exposing how media narratives often distort the facts. They explored how political decisions...
Talk to an Election Integrity Event in DC
General Michael Flynn organized a talk that I gave on voting rules in other countries and some academic research that I have done on voting. The PowerPoint below will help you follow along with the talk. A copy of the PowerPoint is available here. Vote Fraud Mail-in...
Transgender Shooters Commit Disproportionate Shares of Mass Public and Active Shooting Attacks—In 2024, for active shooters, at Least 12 Times Their Share of the Population
A widely cited February 2024 report by Politifact claimed: "No evidence of rising LGBTQ+ violent extremism or 'trans terrorism." A follow up report by Politifact in September 2025 examined both the FBI's definition of active shooting attacks and the notion of mass...
Americans are very concerned about violent crime, think that it is getting worse, don’t think deporting illegal alien criminals helps, and trust Republicans more than Democrats to reduce crime
Because Democrats are reluctant to catch and punish criminals, it is no surprise that a new Rasmussen Reports survey finds Americans trust Republicans more on crime—though the 5-percentage-point gap remains modest. Even as murder rates fell last year to historic...
CPRC in the News: New York Post, The New York Sun, The Daily Signal, Townhall, World Net Daily, and more
In 2025, ICE arrested and deported approximately 600,000 illegal immigrants — most of whom, as former Department of Justice official and scholar John Lott has pointed out, were detained with administrative warrants issued by immigration judges under DOJ or the...
On Armed American Radio: To Discuss Trump’s Immigration Enforcement and Democrats’ Shutdown Demands
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on the Armed American Radio show about the media’s claims regarding Trump’s immigration enforcement and Democrats’ demands as they threaten another government shutdown. See also Dr. Lott's new piece at the New York Post ("How...
John Ruddick, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, gives a Speech citing Dr. John Lott’s Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNhVkoNb820 John Ruddick is an Australian politician, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. After Dr. John Lott's presentation to members the previous night, Ruddick recounted Lott's discussion on the floor of the...
Talking to Australian University Students about crime rates, mass public shootings, and gun control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrBA2eIYdws Dr. John Lott addressed university students from the University of New South Wales, Australian National University, and other local colleges in New South Wales during his visit to Australia on February 8th, 2026. The...
On The Ark, Turning Point Australia: What Australia must learn after Bondi Beach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCooe2-Ynoo This is a very long two hour and twenty minute interview that covers a lot of topics. From the Show: "You’ll be surprised with some of the statistics he has and how wrong our experts have it in Australia. He certainly took...
At Real Clear Politics: Virtually All Countries Support Voter Photo ID – So Why the Filibuster?
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed on the upcoming push to pass the SAVE Act. Besides appearing originally at Real Clear Politics, it has also appeared at Zero Hedge. . “The bottom line is this: voter ID is not controversial in this country,” Harry Enten, the chief data...












