Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on the Armed American Radio show for an hour about changes in the media landscape after Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election, the future of the Biden White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, and Trump’s...
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WORTH LISTENING TO: On WMAL’s Vince Coglianese Show: Discussing Illegal Migrants
Dr. John Lott talked to guest host Pete Mundo on Washington, D.C.’s WMAL about the border crisis and his column at The Daily Signal titled "Are Illegal Migrants Less Likely to Commit Crime? Guess Again." (Monday, November 25, 2024)
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 38 Cases During August 2024
Las Vegas, Nevada, August 1, 2024 (KTNV) A man who shot and killed the driver of an SUV who was trying to run people over is in police custody and is cooperating, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Police say around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, a man...
On The Schilling Show: To Discuss Concerns about the FBI’s Crime Statistics
Dr. John Lott appeared on the Schilling Show in Charlotteville, Virginia to discuss why the FBI may be lying about violent crime. See also Dr. Lott's new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations titled "Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime...
On America First with Sebastian Gorka: To Discuss Trump’s Election
https://youtu.be/m4hpPrOwL4c Dr. John Lott talked to the guest host Bob Frantz on America First with Sebastian Gorka about President-elect Donald Trump's election and concerns about FBI crime statistics. (Friday, November 15, 2024, from 4:45 to 4:52 PM ET)
Washington Examiner: Illegal migrant crime cost $166.5 billion, three times the price of deportation
Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner had this discussion on our recent piece at Real Clear Investigations. . The cost of crime from 662,000 criminal illegal migrants sought for deportation has been pegged at three times the much-hyped price of President-elect Donald...
CRPC in the News: New York Post, Fox News, Associated Press, Real Clear Politics, and PJ Media
The Crime Prevention Research Center first flagged the FBI’s quiet adjustment in a story that was published by RealClearInvestigations. Jordan and Biggs are demanding all documentation and communication related to the “FBI’s process for updating” the data as...
On Point of View: To Discuss Voting and Crime
Dr. John Lott talked to Kerby Anderson on his national radio show Point of View about the 2024 Election and the trend toward mail-in ballots. By a 59% to 33% likely voters are concerned about vote-by-mail making cheating easier. (Wednesday, November 6, 2024)
Real Clear Investigations: Estimated Victimization Cost of Crime by Illegal Aliens is at least $166.5 Billion
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations. The piece was then published at The Daily Caller, The Daily Signal, Independent Journal Review, The Epoch Times, Zero Hedge, The Political Insider, Gateway Pundit, World Net Daily, The Association of Mature...
$166.5 Billion, A Very Conservative Estimate of Criminal Victimization Costs from Criminal Illegal Aliens Released into the U.S., Assuming They Commit Just One Similar Crime in the U.S. to the Most Serious Crime They Committed in Their Home Country
We will shortly be releasing a Real Clear Investigations analysis based on estimates developed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) suggests that crime by illegal aliens who entered the U.S. by July 21, 2024, cost the country some...
Survey: Are States Doing Enough to Stop Illegal Immigrants from Voting?
A recent national survey by Rasmussen Reports conducted in August reveals that 32% of likely U.S. voters believe that election officials in their state have either done nothing to prevent illegal immigrants from voting or have not addressed the issue at all....
New Publication at the International Review of Law & Economics: Estimating the effect of concealed carry laws on murder and other violent crimes
Our new research paper is available to read here. Abstract In 2021 we wrote a short paper noting that truncating the sample when estimating the effect of right to carry laws on crime could be biased by comparisons to states that already adopted the law, instead of...












