This piece appeared in the Billings Gazette and also in Helena Independent Record, Missoulian, Montana Standard, and the Ravioli Republic, all are in Montana, . . Around midmorning on Thursday, parents across Montana started receiving texts from their children that...
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At the Federalist: The FBI Is Lying About Violent Crime To Help Democrats Win This Election
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist. The FBI has a big transparency problem. For a year, the media has been using the FBI’s estimates of reported crime to claim that crime has been falling. When the FBI released its numbers for 2023 in September...
At Real Clear Politics: First, Second, Fourth Amendments Endangered by Kamala Harris
Dr, John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Real Clear Politics. It also appeared at Zero Hedge, All Sides, and Patriot Post. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats claim they are the party of freedom. In Harris’ interview on Club Shay Shay on Monday,...
Real Clear Investigations: Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats
Dr. John Lott has a new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations. It also appeared at Alpha News, Patriot Post, Tipp Insights. . When the FBI originally released the "final" crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime...
At the Missoulian: Open elections? Be careful, Montana
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Missoulian newspaper in Missoula, Montana. . Two constitutional initiatives to change how Montanans vote will be on the ballot in November, and both are deceptive. Two of them will help Democrats and ensure, ironically,...
At the Washington Times: Kamala Harris may own a gun, but she doesn’t want you to
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Washington Times. . Vice President Kamala Harris has pushed back hard on claims that she wants to take people’s guns away by repeatedly saying that she and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz own guns. . It sounds reassuring, but it doesn’t...
Letter Submitted to the New York Times: Responding to Paul Krugman’s “Trump’s Made-Up ‘Kamala Crime Wave’,” August 22
Here is a letter that we submitted to the New York Times a couple weeks ago. The letter was not published by the Times. Background: I have served as the senior advisor for research and statistics in the US Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs and the...
At Townhall: The Biden-Harris Administration Ghost Gun Case is filled with Lies
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. has a new op-ed piece at Townhall. Homemade guns have been around since before the United States was a country, but gun control advocates refer to them today as “ghost guns.” VanDerStok v. Garland, which the Supreme Court will hear...
At the New York Post: First jobs, now crime: Biden’s FBI revises 2022 violence stats for the worse
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at New York Post. This week President Biden once again took a victory lap on crime, trumpeting preliminary FBI data on trends in 2024. “Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office,” he bragged in an official...
At Real Clear Politics: The New Data on Migrant Crime
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece was also published in the Tennessee Star, NOQ Report, Real Clear Policy, and Off the Press. . The new data on all the criminal noncitizens coming into the U.S. is shocking. . The U.S. Immigration...
At the Federalist: AI Chatbots Are Programmed To Spew Democrat Gun Control Narratives
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots will play a critical role in the upcoming elections as voters use AI to seek information on candidates and issues. Most recently, Amazon’s Alexa has come under scathing...
At Real Clear Politics: Media Push Misleading Crime Stats To Protect Democrat Narrative
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece was also published at The New York Sun, The Blaze, Zero Hedge, The Gateway Pundit, The Ohio Star, The Tennessee Star, The Political Insider, Patriot Daily Press. The Highland County Press, Crime is a...