A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2024 are available here. . After peaking in 2022, the number of Concealed Carry Permit holders across the United States has declined for the third year in a...
At the end of this we have added Fact-checks from ChatGPT 5.1 and Grok Expert In April 2025, the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) held 32,469 incarcerated individuals. By November 2025, New York’s jails held another 18,334...
The Crime Prevention Research Center has worked with the Peace Officers Research Association of California and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen on an Amicus brief for the U.S. Supreme Court looking at the Ninth Circuit holding “that a national tradition...
The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) shows a dramatic drop in arrest rates for homicides over the last 60 years -- a 43 percent, 39 percentage point, drop. The Excel file with the data is available here. fbi_murder_rate_1965_2004Download
For those under 18, vehicle deaths are consistently greater than those from firearms. When you use the FBI murder data, the vehicle deaths exceed the firearm deaths for 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023 and likely 2021, though the FBI data isn’t available for that year. The...
The 2024 National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics is out and the increase in violent crime was even worse than seen during the first three years of Biden's administration. During the first three years, the increase in felonious violent...
Dr. John Lott has a new investigative piece based on our research at Real Clear Investigations. It was also published at Zero Hedge, Tennessee Star, and World Net Daily. Our detailed data is available here. This article builds on our research report available here and...
Data: For convenience, the Excel file is available here, as well as a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories (see also here). We also show cases that the FBI missed of both armed and unarmed civilians stopping active shooting attacks. FBI...
The list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns, and were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports. The FBI's definition of active shootings is narrow: it involves cases where a gun is fired in public and not part of some other...
Updated August 27, 2025: You would think the empirical evidence would be overwhelming at some point. When the Aurora, Colorado Batman movie theater shooter attacked, seven movie theaters were showing "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20th within 20 minutes of the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZax0C1Obho UPDATE: The streak ended early on the 14th day, the morning of Tuesday, August 26, 2025, when 31-year-old Franck Foute Mohdjiom was fatally shot in the 300 block of Anacostia Rd SE. Original: The news report above is from...
Our original post using the FBI's 2023 crime data is available here for comparison. Whether compared to states—since Democrats want D.C. to become the 51st state—or to major cities, the district stands out for all the wrong reasons. Anyone who has been in a CVS or...