Other types of crime statistics, including the National Crime Victimization Survey, show current levels of violent crime far lower than their peaks in the early 1990s. . . . Louis Jacobson, "Joe Biden is correct that violent crime is near a 50-year low,"...
From a Twitter Post on June 17, 2023 Kamala Harris: "The number one cause of death of the children in America is gun violence." As we have previously discussed, a common claim is that firearms are the leading cause of death for "children or adolescents." On June 2nd,...
The Anti-Defamation League has a new report titled: "Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2022." They claim that all the murderers of the 25 people murdered by extremists in 2022 were "right-wingers," which they describe as white supremacists, anti-government...
Dr. John Lott talked to Scot Bertram on the Michigan Talk Network about fact-checking the Washington Post's fact-checking Trump and also our research on the alleged racism of police. (Friday, July 3, 2020, from 8:35 to 8:45 AM)
Dr. John Lott has another piece at Real Clear Politics on media bias regarding crime rates and Trump. The media keeps going out of its way to fact check President Trump’s claims as false. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump is one of many journalists who can’t be...
“You hear about certain places like Chicago and you hear about what’s going on in Detroit and other — other cities, all Democrat run. Every one of them is Democrat run. Twenty out of twenty. The 20 worst, the 20 most dangerous are Democrat run.”Donald Trump, "Remarks...