On Friday morning's The National Report on Newsmax, reporter Jason Mattera presented a piece highlighting evidence that the mass shooter in Minneapolis chose to target a school in part because it was a gun-free zone, citing the Crime Prevention Research...
Dr. John Lott was interviewed at Fox News about the current debate over policing. . Fox News Digital spoke with Crime Prevention Research Center founder John Lott, who said resistance to Trump’s anti-crime blitz echoes the defund the police movement since both...
Vince Coglianese on his national radio show on August 25th discusses our estimates of the probability that the drop in D.C.'s homicide rate after Trump federalization of policing is just a random occurrence. Vince Coglianese: "The Great John Lott from the Crime...
The top story on the Fox News website features an interview Dr. John Lott did on the Minneapolis and other mass murderers targeting gun-free zones. John Lott, the founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital about some of the...
A new analysis by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) found that the FBI has understated the number of times armed civilians have stopped active shooter incidents in the United States. According to the FBI, civilians stopped just 14 out of 374 active shooter...
Washington, D.C., faces one of the nation's worst crime crises — with murder and robbery rates dwarfing those of entire states, according to FBI data. While national crime statistics already capture only a fraction of offenses — just 40% of violent...
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt again Tweets out our new op-ed piece at The Federalist titled: "D.C.’s Murder Rate Is More Than 500% Higher Than The Average State." (Wednesday, August 20, 2025)
Under the heading "Trump Admin Efforts Could Sharply Reduce DC Crime," President Donald Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt retweeted one of our opinion pieces on Trump federalizing D.C.'s police force. (Tuesday, August 12, 2025)
Mentioning our work on NewsMax on July 29, 2025 Victor Davis Hanson: “as a lot of people pointed out, John Lott and others, there is a correlation between deporting hundreds of thousands of criminals and a drop in crime, and that has financial benefits for the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xw6RhliBtE In discussing the mass public shooting in New York City on July 28th, Greg Gutfeld on Fox News’ The Five made points very similar to ones that we have long made and we discussed these points with Greg before the show. Our...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thHVUHFzCg4 Lisa Boothe on Fox News' Outnumbered discusses John Lott's work on active shootings (July 29, 2025). Lott's point was: The New York City murderer who killed four people broke numerous gun control laws—he openly carried a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVM2k7NT2D0 Here is a slightly older video on the same topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjHtjtHDZ7o Updated data on this topic is available here and here. We would argue that it isn't just that criminals ignore these gun free zone...