Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist that focuses on media bias. Our tracking of the lack of media coverage by major outlets on this historic drop in violent and property crime and murders is available here. The piece was linked to on the front page of Real...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R70HCsH-cPA Trump: "Just today, it was announced by the Department of Justice that last year we had over 100,000 fewer rapes, 170,000 fewer robberies, half a million fewer burglaries, and almost 700,000 fewer violent crimes than when I...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations on the record drop in violent crime during 2025 and the historic low murder rate. Also posted at Zero Hedge and linked to at HotAir. . The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to...
Murders vary a lot over the course of a year. Before Trump intervened, Memphis had the nation’s fourth-highest murder rate among cities with more than 100,000 residents, while D.C. ranked 11th. Trump took federal control of D.C.’s policing on August 11, 2025....
Screenshot Comparing the number of murders in the first seven months of 2025 to the same time in 2026:FBI Crime Data Explorer Data Discovery ToolMonth20252026Coverage gap in 2026 in percent of the population covered in percentage pointsPercent Drop in Homicides...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. See also the link at Real Clear Politics. . The federal government consistently downplays evidence that armed, law-abiding citizens can stop public mass-casualty attacks. . Those who manipulate crime data can shape the...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qnoxrolfxGU Some sources on the increase in crime during the Biden administration and more details on why crime is falling under Trump.
At the request of gun-control activists such as Mark Bryant, founder of the Gun Violence Archive, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed its defensive gun-use data in May 2022. Bryant had complained that gun-rights advocates frequently cited the...
Gun control advocates have condemned the Justice Department’s decision to stop criminally enforcing the nearly 60-year-old federal ban on licensed dealers selling handguns to law-abiding 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds. Saying it will cause the loss of life. “That’s...
The CDC recently restored information on defensive gun use that it removed from its website in 2022 after gun-control advocates privately pressured agency officials to take it down. Until May 2022, the CDC cited a 2013 National Academies of Sciences (NAS)...
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 10% higher than Argentina's 2025 homicide rate of 3.6 per 100,000. It looks like the U.S. murder rate for the...
UPDATED to include the FBI measure of the murder rate during 2025 of 4.1 per 100,000 people. The August 14, 2026 FBI press release states: “The 2025 murder rate of 4.1 per 100,000 inhabitants is tied with 1955 and 1956 for the lowest murder rate.” A new report from...