Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at The Federalist: There is a lot of attention on the Trump administration removing dozens of Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI officials involved in charging 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, but one area of politicization in the FBI and...
After suffering alarming spikes in violent crime, some cities are now reporting better news. But the past four years have been filled with debate over the national trends. Some say the government has been manipulating numbers. I spoke with a data expert about the how...
https://youtu.be/eKmjtPo22s0?si=JsKNZ3IKDqHbF5zA Dr. John Lott appeared on Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson to discuss the misleading crime statistics. Whether it’s America’s violent crime rate as measured by the FBI, or crimes committed by illegal immigrants, there...
Asylum seekers have been involved in a series of deadly attacks in Germany, and police said that the latest attack today in Munich was by someone with an "extremist background." Today's attack was carried out by a failed asylum-seeker using a Mini Cooper. It...
UPDATED March 7th, 2025: We have previously put out our study on the FBI's active shooting reports. If you watch entertainment television police shows, you would think something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively (including shooting bystanders to...
From One America News: "As the Trump administration ramps up deportations of criminal illegal aliens, some alien advocates say the cost of deportation are too high, but Dr. John Lott of the crime prevention research center has run the numbers and says when it...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Washington Times about President Trump's executive order on protecting the Second Amendment. . A new CBS/YouGov poll shows that 70 percent of Americans think President Trump is keeping his campaign promises. On Friday, Trump...
The Crime Prevention Research Center joined the Peace Officers Research Association of California, the California State Sheriff's Association, and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen in putting this Amicus brief together, though I suspect that most people...
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on the Armed American Radio show about information regarding the importance of real data and truthful numbers and studies to the FBI and ATF under the Trump administration. (Sunday, January 5, 2025, from 9:35 to 9:55 PM ET)
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Larry Elder Show to discuss the price of migrant crime. See also Dr. Lott's two pieces at The Daily Signal ("Crime Rate for Illegal Aliens Vastly Understated, Data Shows") and ("New Data on Migrant Crime Rates Raises Eyebrows, Alarms")....
An early morning attempted armed robbery in Chicago's Homan Square neighborhood ended with an exchange of gunfire and one suspect dead after the victim, who had a FOID card and Concealed Carry License, fired shots, police said. The incident took place around...
Dr. John Lott talked to John Anthony on Detroit's 92.7 FM WDTK The Answer about the misleading crime statistics and crimes committed by illegal aliens. (Friday, January 31, 2025, from 8:35 to 9:00 AM ET)