Media Coverage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEQu-mWsMsM Fox News' Gutfeld! discussed our Real Clear Investigation piece on the FBI and violent crime. Dr. Lott’s new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations is here: “Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats.”...

The Dan Bongino Show discussed our Real Clear Investigation piece on the FBI and violent crime. Dr. Lott's new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations is here: “Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats.” Glenn Beck's show is listened to by 8.5...

Former President Donald Trump has been hit with numerous “fact-checks” on the campaign trail that have cited FBI statistics to maintain violent crime is falling in America. However, the bureau quietly adjusted its figures for 2022 in recent weeks — and...

During the first hour of WMAL's The Vince Coglianese Show with Mary Katherine Hamm on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, Vince mentioned our research on the problem with official crime statistics. See also Dr. Lott’s op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled “The Media Say...

John Lott of the Crime Research Center points out that the government maintains two crime measures. The first is the Uniform Crime Reporting program, which is based on crimes reported to the police and forwarded to the FBI. How these reports are filed and reported was...

The complete copy of the report is available here. Here are some of the mentions of Dr. Lott research and testimony that were spread out throughout the report. The video of Lott's testimony before the commission is available here. Comments about the reaction of...

Fox News reporter Emma Colton interviewed Dr. John Lott for this news article. This article was also translated into Spanish via "Tripulante Mx," Polish, and Brazilian. . . . . "When David Muir goes and says the FBI shows that crime is down, that's not what the FBI is...

John Lott Jr., former senior adviser for research and statistics at the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, was one of the witnesses at the hearing that had adduced the data on which the commission’s report is based. (Lott has testified before the...

Trump was correct, as Crime Prevention Research Center president John R. Lott Jr. wrote in a detailed piece published the next day: In fact, Trump was correct about the increase in crime under Biden. While violent crime fell by 17 percent under Trump, Biden...