Our research by Dr. John Lott and Professor Carl Moody titled "Do White Police Officers Unfairly Target Black Suspects?" is forthcoming in the journal Economics, Law, and Policy's December issue. For those who wish to replicate our research, all the files are...
The National Crime Victimization Survey, in the latest year that it is available, 2019, shows that firearms were used 440,830 incidents for rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults (Table 25). The FBI Uniform Crime Reports shows that firearms were used...
Dr. John Lott has a new investigative news piece at Real Clear Investigations that was also up on the Real Clear Politics page. In response to sharp increases in violent crime, President Biden stressed again last week that his administration is focused on...
Remember that 12 states mandate that public universities allow permitted concealed handguns on public college campuses (the NCSL excludes Tennessee from their list because professors and staff and not students (except for graduate teaching assistants) are...
This new research by Dr. John Lott is available here. While he was working at the Department of Justice, he put together a report on errors in the FBI's Reports on Active Shooting incidents. Abstract The claim in the original FBI report that active shooting cases have...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigation/Real Clear Politics and the Daily Signal and American Greatness. Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020...
The news media and entertainment television keep pushing the notion that most mass public shootings are done by white supremacists. Who is a white supremacist is actually fairly difficult to determine because many of the classifications are based on solely whether the...
Prof. Carl Moody, the CPRC's Research Director, has a new paper (available here) explaining why so many other papers are making mistakes in how they estimate the impact of concealed handguns on crime rates. The point might seem obvious, that there are huge differences...
The paper on in-person and proxy voting rules can be downloaded here. There are 157 pages of appendices so that people can check the information provided. The paper on absentee voting rules is available here. Abstract Americans keep hearing that there is no need to...
Our dataset of Mass Public Shooting List US 1998-March 2021 provides information on the ages, political views, and religious beliefs of mass public shooters and these killers’ race and gender. And it also provides information on the types of guns used....
Entertainment television continually provides a false impression of those who commit mass public shootings and how they commit them. Show after show has mass public shootings involving machine guns, though that never happens. But another myth is that attacks are...
UPDATE: Montana Governor Greg Gianforte Announces That He Has Talked To Secretary Of State Christi Jacobsen About Mail-In Vote Fraud Allegations In Missoula, Montana ORIGINAL: Dr. John Lott has an investigative piece on mail-in vote fraud in Montana. Some of the...