The Fox News story is available here. If you are interested in reading our original report that will be published this week in the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Today, please download it here. Right now the coverage of our report is at the very top of the Fox...
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With the NRA convention coming to Nashville in three weeks, what are the restaurants and bars where permit holders are welcome?
(Picture of the tourist area of Nashville) While concealed handgun permit holders will be allowed to carry at the convention center for their annual meeting, there are many restaurants and bars around the convention center that don't allow people to carry. With the...
Concealed handgun permit holder stops gunman at barbershop
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More information on who the Obama administration has been targeting through “Operation Choke Point”
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CPRC in the Idaho Statesman: Discussing the increase in concealed handgun permits and what it means
From an article by Bill Dentzer in the Idaho Statesman: . . . The move toward "shall-issue" accelerated in the mid-1980s. Florida became a shall-issue state in 1987, and now has 1.3 million concealed carry permit holders - roughly 10 percent of the national number,...
CPRC on Fox News: Chicago’s Crime Problems
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com John Lott talks to John Stossel on what Rahm Emanuel has done to Chicago's police department.
Former Maryland state police Captain and new CPRC Fellow Jack McCauley on Fox & Friends
CPRC's research on concealed handguns is discussed here, though we are going to have to work with Jack a little bit to get the name right!
How criminals think: Criminals go after easier, less risky targets
Regarding a murder by three young men in Philadelphia: . . .The cold-hearted teens and a 14-year-old boy targeted 51-year-old James Stuhlman for a robbery after they tired of playing basketball, police Captain James Clark told reporters. . . . The 14-year-old faces...
Florida permit holder saves woman who was being brutally beaten
From WPTV NBC Channel 5 in West Palm Beach, Florida: That's when witnesses say Anderson stepped in to help. "He saw a woman being attacked at night, and he went to her aid. In my opinion I think he did the right thing," the sheriff says. Anderson is a disabled Army...
CPRC on the Steve Malzberg TV Show to discuss the DOJ Report on Racism in the Ferguson Police Dept
John Lott's interview with Steve Malzberg is available here.
CPRC in Investors’ Business Daily: Ferguson Justice Department Report Misleads On Racism
John Lott has expanded his previous discussion in the New York Post with some additional data that he didn't have room for in that piece. Most seem to accept the Obama administration's claim that the Ferguson police department is a hotbed of racism. As President Obama...
CPRC to appear on Fox News’ Stossel to talk about Chicago’s Crime Rates
CPRC will be on Fox News several times this weekend (Airs Friday at 9PM EDT on FBN , March 20th; Saturday at 1 AM and 4 AM EDT on FBN, March 21th; and Sunday at 10PM EDT on Fox News, March 22nd): GUN VIOLENCE: Chicago has one of the highest gun violence rates in the...