Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about the Abundant Life Christian school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, and gun control policy. (Friday, December 20, 2024) Vicki’s show covers most of Wisconsin and part of the...
Dr. John Lott appeared on WMAL’s Vince Coglianese Show to discuss his new piece at The Federalist with a deep dive into the numbers on deporting illegal alien criminals. They also discussed the US housing crisis under the Biden...
Cleveland isn't the only city that has been accused of under reporting crime rates. Chicago and Philadelphia has faced similar claims in the past. Since 2013, the department submitted 1.9 million case reports to OIBRS. About 119,000 criminal offenses weren't...
Larry O'Connor gave a talk at Hillsdale College in October 2024, where he discussed our research on the changes in the FBI crime statistics for 2022 and Dr. Lott's seminal book, "More Guns, Less Crime."
Many graphs using the data are shown at the end of the post. When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our...
UPDATE: The number murdered has now reached 14. Original Post: Yet another mass murder with a vehicle. It just makes it clear that terrorists can murder people in many different ways. Besides using the truck, the murderer reportedly made multiple IEDs. The attacker...
This piece by Dr. John Lott appeared in the Billings Gazette, Helena Independent Record, Missoulian, Montana Standard, and the Ravioli Republic, all in Montana. President Joe Biden has recently commuted death sentences to life sentences for 37 of the 40 men who are on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHqQc-WtLww Unfortunately, television police shows always seem to have something go wrong with a concealed handgun permit holder, either being fatally shot by the criminal without stopping the...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist with a deep dive into the numbers. . In testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, American Immigration Council (AIC) Senior Fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick remarked last week that mass deportations would...
By a two-to-one margin, Gallup finds that Americans believe that a gun in the home makes people safer. That is a big change from when the question was first asked in 2000 when Americans by a 51-to-35 percent margin thought that the opposite was true. . Currently, 64%...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y45-7-4Bs-M As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns...
new report based on data from the U.S. Department of Justice suggests that crimes committed by illegal migrants cost U.S. taxpayers at least $166.5 billion, and the severity of those crimes greatly exceeds that of typical American norms. The report was written...