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...
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UPDATED: D.C. Marks 13 Days Without a Homicide After Trump Takeover: What are the odds of that? 0.13% Based on 2024 Data. 0.23% Based on 2025’s First Seven Months. The lives being saved are almost all black.
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...
2024 Data Shows D.C. Crime Soars Above States and Cities: Murder and Robbery Lead the Surge—Murder Rate 28% Higher Than the Worst Big City, 136% Higher Than the Worst State, and 434% Above the Average State.
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...
How Does D.C.’s Crime Rates Compare to the Rest of the U.S.? Comparing D.C. to the States and Puerto Rico? D.C.’s Crime Rate is Remarkably High. With Murder and Robbery being Particularly High. D.C.’s Murder Rate is 50% Higher than the Highest of the 20 Most Populous Cities.
UPDATE: We have now posted a similar comparison using the FBI's 2024 crime data available here. Original Post: Even Joe Scarborough on MSNBC on August 13th admits: Democrats will apparently privately say there is a crime problem in D.C. and that what Trump is doing...
Interracial Violent Crime. Blacks committed violent crime against whites 9.2 times more than the reverse. Blacks committed violent crime against Asians 88.9 times more than the reverse.
Saturday morning's vicious attacks on several whites in Cincinnati by a group of blacks has resulted in five people being charged, though specific charges haven't been made public yet. How frequently do violent crimes by one racial group against another in the United...
Battling Bias on X’s Grok: Dr. Lott finally gets Grok to Concede that it was Making a Lot of Erroneous claims about the Impact of Concealed Carry Laws and Gun Bans on Crime Rates
After initial posts by Grok responding to other user's questions on X on Friday, July 18, 2025, Dr. John Lott challenged Grok's gun control claims, starting on July 19th. This is one of the last posts, but it summarizes the outcome of major points of the debate. The...
UPDATED: Bryan Kohberger: Yet Another Mass Murderer Who Took a Plea Bargain to Avoid the Death Penalty: Who says that the death penalty isn’t a deterrence? A List of Prominent Cases
"While Life Imprisonment is tough, it's certainly better than receiving the Death Penalty," President Donald Trump wrote. Michael Ruiz, :Trump weighs in on Bryan Kohberger's plea deal ahead of crucial Idaho murders sentencing," Fox News, July 21, 2025. These cases...
CATO Again Pushes False Claim that Illegal Aliens Commit Crime at a Low Rate Based on Survey Data that Ignores that Many Criminal Illegals Never Serve Time in US Prisons or Serve Shortened Sentences and It Requires Illegals Self Identify as Illegal
The CATO Institute has long pushed for open borders, a stance that contrasts with the views of other libertarians like Milton Friedman, who argued that open immigration only works if the country doesn't have a large welfare system. In a new report, despite all the...
Democrat Senator Chris Murphy falsely claims that Suppressors make Mass Public Shootings more deadly and make it so “no one will be able to hear the gun shots”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKXSGsumy68 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWejssRZyd0 Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) claims that suppressors make mass public shootings more deadly. Between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2024, there were 104 mass public shootings, but...
JAMA Pediatrics Publishes Extremely Flawed Studied Titled: “Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US”
A new study in JAMA Pediatrics asserts that states with "permissive" gun control laws experienced higher pediatric firearm mortality rates following the 2010 Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. Chicago. The study analyzed data from 49 states spanning 1999 to 2023....
Our Survey Shows Why the Recent Public Health Survey Claiming 18 million American Adults Present at Mass Shootings is So Ridiculous. Number Shot Given by the Survey is Off by at least 71 Times!
A new survey titled “Exposure to Mass Shootings in the United States: A National Survey” and published in March 7th issue of the journal JAMA Network Open claims that approximately 6.95% of U.S. adults reported having been present at the scene of a mass shooting...
A Slight Drop in the Rate that Total Violent Crimes Resulted in an Arrest in 2023, A Very Slight Increase for Property Crimes
We had previously reported that 20.3% of total violent crimes in 2022 result in an arrest and that was true for 3.8% of total property crimes. That was obtained by taking the Bureau of Justice Statistics measure of total violent and property crimes that were reported...











