Trump was correct, as Crime Prevention Research Center president John R. Lott Jr. wrote in a detailed piece published the next day: In fact, Trump was correct about the increase in crime under Biden. While violent crime fell by 17 percent under Trump, Biden...
Our work pointing to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey and that it shows that violent crime has increased under Biden has gotten significant news attention. Amusingly, ABC News has refused to respond to requests for comment from...
Here is part of the article that the Washington Times just published. . . . Both are statistically unchanged from 2022 but are significantly higher than in 2020, the last year under President Trump. The data said Americans aren’t reporting some of the most common...
In the op-ed, published by the New York Post, Lott explained that there are two ways of examining occurrences of violent crime: One is the measure of those crimes reported to police and the other is the measure of those crimes which were not reported. . . . AWR...
Dr. Lott's held a press briefing on Friday on our work on the rise in crime over the last few years. Dr. John Lott, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, also shared startling statistics about the rise in unreported violent crimes during President...
Dr. John Lott participated in a press briefing on the crime data today with about 30 reporters on whether crime is increasing or decreasing. Below is the beginning of a news story from Breitbart on the presentation. CBS News also asked Lott a question, but they and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKs69OEpzqQ Trump: "And we had a couple of instances last night where things were mentioned. So I got it. Did crime rise under Trump and fall under Biden? They said it rose under Trump and and they go, No, the opposite is true. Take a...
Stephen Dinan at the Washington Times has a long article that was motivated by our work on whether crime rates are going up or down. Here is part of his article that directly discusses our work. . . . “The question is: Do you want to look at only crimes reported to...
. . . I don’t believe firearms are the leading cause of death for children. One should not accept the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the only or most reliable data source. I challenge Murthy to investigate data from the Crime Prevention Research Center...
Instead of relying on incomplete FBI data, Republicans point to the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey, which John Lott, founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center, tells RCP is the “gold standard” in crime statistics because it...
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by the editor of America's First Freedom, Frank Miniter, about the problems with the FBI crime data. Our previous research on this topic can be found here and here. Our op-eds on this are available here and here.
According to gun expert and founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) John Lott, who served as the senior advisor for Research and Statistics in the Office of Justice Programs and then the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice...