Dr. John Lott has a new investigations piece at Real Clear Investigations. . Conventional wisdom holds that the United States is the most violent and dangerous nation in the developed world. This dark view is frequently invoked by conservatives to demand stronger...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed with Canadian Professor Gary Mauser on the high violent crime rate in Canada that explains the research that we recently posted. . Canada faces a serious crime problem, but many Canadians believe crime is relatively low compared with the...
Comparisons of crime rates across countries often focus on homicides or murders. In 2025, the U.S. murder rate will be about 4 per 100,000 people—roughly twice Canada's 2024 homicide rate of 1.91 per 100,000. However, homicides represent only a tiny share of violent...
We previously posted how the D.C. Police Union said that Mayor Bowser’s claim that the Crime-data Manipulation is isolated to one precinct is “Preposterous.” It turns out that Trump was Justified in auditing the D.C. Crime Data. Not sure anyone should believe DC’s...
The Washington Post doesn't really want to give President Trump credit for the drop in crime in DC. Please look at the graph above and notice that there was a discrete change in August and September 2025 (and the change only started about half way through August on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrBA2eIYdws Dr. John Lott addressed university students from the University of New South Wales, Australian National University, and other local colleges in New South Wales during his visit to Australia on February 8th, 2026. The...
Last year left-wing outfits such as the Brennan Center were predicting disaster from President Trump's and congressional Republican's policies. This write up from the Brennan Center was from last July, and with the data showing that murder rates likely fell to an all...
Dr. John Lott and CPRC senior fellow Kesten Green, who is also a researcher at the Adelaide University, College of Business and Law, compared the violent crime rates in Australia and the United States. Australian are clearly at much greater risk of violent crime than...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiOaTOz1aPQ Just two days after the mass public shooting in Australia that left 15 murdered and 43 people wounded, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed: 'Australia is no stranger to gun safety legislation. They famously...
D.C. has been accused by its police union of manipulating crime data to hide violent crimes. Mayor Bowser claimed the manipulation was limited to just one precinct, but this new report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shows the problem was...
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
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. It was also published in the Tennessee Star, Alpha News, and the Herald/Review (Sierra Vista, AZ). . During last year’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump said violent crime was...