After suffering alarming spikes in violent crime, some cities are now reporting better news. But the past four years have been filled with debate over the national trends. Some say the government has been manipulating numbers. I spoke with a data expert about the how...
Full Measure's Sharyl Attkisson does a deep dive with Dr. John Lott on problems with the FBI’s crime data. This interview was related to Dr. Lott’s investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations titled “Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats.”...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsD7o4SHW38 NJ Assemblyman Greg Myhre (R) has a video on how violent crime fell after the Supreme Court's Bruen decision, dramatically increasing the number of concealed handgun permits in the state. As has been seen in all the other...
Trump's numbers and the timing of when the data was released might not be exactly right, but the general point is definitely correct (see here and here). Other times where Trump has relied on our research are here and here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSbeNHT99PM FBI actualización de los datos sobre delincuencia para reflejar el aumento de la violencia en 2022, según el experto John Lott Greg Wehner, "Persecución de un ayudante de los US Marshal asesinado a tiros en Houston," Fox...
Sharyl Attkinson is a reporter who hosts the Sinclair Broadcast Group TV show Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson. She is a five-time Emmy Award winner and a Radio Television Digital News Association (RTNDA) Edward R. Murrow Award recipient. She previously worked for...
Cain, a staunch conservative who is entering his fourth term in the Texas House, said he opposes the State Fair's gun ban because he thinks "gun-free zones are ineffective." He cited the fact that many "mass public shootings" have occurred in places where firearms are...
In the first poll, by McLaughlin & Associates (commissioned by John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center), only 19 percent (fewer than one in five voters) favored passing more gun control laws. A comforting and reassuring 54 percent said having the police...
Brianna Robinson, who has about 83,000 followers, has a post using some of our research.
Larry O'Connor gave a talk at Hillsdale College in October 2024, where he discussed our research on the changes in the FBI crime statistics for 2022 and Dr. Lott's seminal book, "More Guns, Less Crime."
new report based on data from the U.S. Department of Justice suggests that crimes committed by illegal migrants cost U.S. taxpayers at least $166.5 billion, and the severity of those crimes greatly exceeds that of typical American norms. The report was written...
Black Guns Matter founder Maj Toure noted that over 90 percent of mass shootings happen in “gun-free zones,” a figure that was revealed by John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center. . . . Jeff Charles, "Here They Go Again: Anti-Gunners Rush to...