Here is a letter that we submitted to the New York Times a couple weeks ago. The letter was not published by the Times. Background: I have served as the senior advisor for research and statistics in the US Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs and the...
https://youtu.be/AlyU_j_522I Dr. John Lott joined Andrew Wilkow on Salem News Channel to discuss the truth about the crime statistics and the newly released FBI’s measure of reported crime data for 2023. (Monday, September 23, 2024)
https://youtu.be/YoFQ0CSWf38 Dr. John Lott appeared on NewsMax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight to discuss the violent crime that has soared under the Biden-Harris administration according to the just-released data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’s National Crime...
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. has a new op-ed piece at Townhall. Homemade guns have been around since before the United States was a country, but gun control advocates refer to them today as “ghost guns.” VanDerStok v. Garland, which the Supreme Court will hear...
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about the latest released statistics showing crime up under the Biden-Harris administration. (Monday, September 16, 2024) Vicki’s show covers most of Wisconsin and part of the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDAzQzf0pU Here is part of Elon Musk's talk for President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5th, 2024. Musk talks about how private gun ownership protects the First Amendment. We focus on that part of his talk because of our...
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%....