https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBs5u7y1rrM Dr. John Lott testified before the Vermont state Senate Judiciary Committee about SB 4, which would ban those under 21 years old from owning so-called "Assault Weapons." A copy of Lott's written testimony is available here....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKuDIsU8A54 Dr. John Lott testified before the Maryland State Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on SB 1, which would turn the state into a gun-free zone. A copy of Lott's written testimony is available here. (Tuesday, February 7,...
Phoenix, Arizona, October 1, 2023 A victim that the suspect allegedly tried to rob on a Phoenix bus was hit and killed by a vehicle while fleeing. When the suspect tried to walk away from the area, an armed bystander in a different vehicle demanded him to stop. The...
Spartanburg, South Carolina, October 24, 2023 An employee and two customers held a shoplifting suspect at gunpoint when he refused to put the items back, pulled out a box cutter, and stated he would cut people. According to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7vdPFzTBYw New Crime Prevention Research Center study has gotten coverage at Fox News, Fox Business, and on Fox News Radio. Here is a report from Fox News: Murders in the U.S. are becoming increasingly concentrated in densely populated...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7unVdqstiJA Dr. John Lott testified before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security for a hearing titled “Examining Uvalde: The Search for Bipartisan Solutions to Gun Violence." They discussed different gun...
Dr. John Lott and James Varney have a piece at Real Clear Investigations on the relationship between crime and immigration. The data used in the investigation is available as a STATA data set here. The regression output is shown at the bottom of this post. The piece...
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2021 are available here. As the United States is moving into a post-pandemic era, the number of concealed handgun permits has continued...
Political violence is central to so much of the political debate in the US. Since a draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson overturning Roe v. Wade leaked in early May 2022, pro-abortion violence has again become a focus of the...
FBI ACTIVE SHOOTER DATABASE is available here for people who want to check all the casesDownload Data: For convenience, a PDF of the Excel file is also available here and a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories. FBI Active Shooting reports are...
The Crime Prevention Research Center hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey Red Flag Laws for 1,000 general election voters from July 21st to 24th, 2022. The survey asked people whether they supported Red Flag Laws, then asked whether they still supported it when...
The paper is available to be downloaded here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=4205992. Our popular write-up on this is available here. Abstract We had a simple goal: match the number of voters who voted with the number of ballots cast. After elections, concerns are raised...