Dr. John Lott and CPRC senior fellow Kesten Green, who is also a researcher at the Adelaide University, College of Business and Law, compared the violent crime rates in Australia and the United States. Australian are clearly at much greater risk of violent crime than...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiOaTOz1aPQ Just two days after the mass public shooting in Australia that left 15 murdered and 43 people wounded, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed: 'Australia is no stranger to gun safety legislation. They famously...
D.C. has been accused by its police union of manipulating crime data to hide violent crimes. Mayor Bowser claimed the manipulation was limited to just one precinct, but this new report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shows the problem was...
The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) shows a dramatic drop in arrest rates for homicides over the last 60 years -- a 43 percent, 39 percentage point, drop. The Excel file with the data is available here. fbi_murder_rate_1965_2004Download
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. It was also published in the Tennessee Star, Alpha News, and the Herald/Review (Sierra Vista, AZ). . During last year’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump said violent crime was...
https://youtu.be/-166XkfP3CA Dr. John Lott spoke at the 40th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, about the problem of misinformation in crime statistics. (Saturday, September 27, 2025)
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the New York Post on the incredibly large, very statistically significant drop in D.C.'s homicide rate since President Trump federalized D.C.'s law enforcement. It is the lead op-ed in today's New York Post. Democrats are still in...
Who would have thought it? Adding more police to the streets, reducing restrictions on policing, and targeting illegal aliens do cut crime. The D.C. police union reports that crime fell sharply during the 14 days after President Trump announced the federalization of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZax0C1Obho UPDATE: The streak ended early on the 14th day, the morning of Tuesday, August 26, 2025, when 31-year-old Franck Foute Mohdjiom was fatally shot in the 300 block of Anacostia Rd SE. Original: The news report above is from...
Our original post using the FBI's 2023 crime data is available here for comparison. Whether compared to states—since Democrats want D.C. to become the 51st state—or to major cities, the district stands out for all the wrong reasons. Anyone who has been in a CVS or...
The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., has opened an investigation into whether city police officials falsified crime data, according to two people familiar with the matter, another salvo in the feud between federal and local authorities after the Trump...
Washington, D.C. has an extremely high crime rate, much higher than any state (Democrats want DC to become the 51st state) and a much worse murder rate than any of the twenty most populous cities, but there is considerable evidence that it is even much higher than the...