Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on the Armed American Radio show about the latest video on Stossel TV covering our work on good guys with guns, which Elon Musk retweeted. They also discussed the second Trump assassination attempt at his Florida golf club and...
Dr. John Lott appeared on WDRC’s Morning with Gary Byron in Connecticut to discuss the second Trump assassination attempt and shootings stopped by good guys with guns. They also talked about Kamala Harris’ stance on guns and gun policy. See also Dr. Lott’s pieces...
The letter asks several questions to the FBI, such as if they omitted any data from various major cities, how many agencies provided incomplete data and if the data would be retroactively adjusted to reflect an increase in violent crime, like it had in...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at New York Post. This week President Biden once again took a victory lap on crime, trumpeting preliminary FBI data on trends in 2024. “Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office,” he bragged in an official...
From One America News: “In a new op-ed for the Federalist, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center Dr. John Lott explains how the CDC, FBI and legacy media are trying to erase a narrative that armed, law abiding citizens prevent crime. One America’s...
A new Rasmussen Reports survey in September shows overwhelming support for requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in national elections. Indeed, only liberals oppose proof of citizenship. Even Democrats as a whole support it by a clear 56%-to-33%....
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on his national radio shows about crime in America and the newly released FBI reported crime data for 2023. (Monday, September 23, 2024, from 6:45 to 6:53 PM ET) The Lars Larson national radio show is heard weekly by 4.25...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece was also published in the Tennessee Star, NOQ Report, Real Clear Policy, and Off the Press. . The new data on all the criminal noncitizens coming into the U.S. is shocking. . The U.S. Immigration...
During the first hour of WMAL's The Vince Coglianese Show with Mary Katherine Hamm on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, Vince mentioned our research on the problem with official crime statistics. See also Dr. Lott’s op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled “The Media Say...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about Kamala Harris' flip-flops on several key policy issues. (Tuesday, September 3, 2024)
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Meyer on Oregon’s KMED about the latest Apalachee High School shooting in Georgia. They also discussed errors in the FBI’s Active Shooting Reports and the truth about the crime explosion. See also Dr. Lott’s new piece at The...
The murder rate in 2019 was 5.168 and 2023 in 5.748, an 11.23% increase. As noted before, the Centers for Disease Control showed an increase in ~murders (homicide, excluding legal intervention) from 2020 to 2022 while the FBI data shows a drop. The CDC data showed a...