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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4wz_DfaITs It is greatly appreciated that Washington Gun Law did this deep dive into data that we put out. We only recently became aware of this video, and it has been out for a while. There are a couple of little mistakes in the...
Dr. John Lott gave a talk to police at the provincial police headquarters in the Argentinian Province of Córdoba. A copy of Lott's Power point without the video is available here. The video is available here. Argentina-Talk-2025-Police-Without-VideoDownload Weapons....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZMHnU8UcHw Again, we appreciate Washington Gun Law covering our data on this. We have updated the data discussed in this post. Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses some raw data released by the Crime Prevention...