Questioner: I'm going to give you some credit. Do you know do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years? Charlie Kirk: Counting or not counting gang violence? The CPRC stands alone in highlighting how many so-called “mass...
Tensions have largely escalated between Trump’s administration and local leaders. Crime Prevention Research Center founder John Lott said, “I think they’re the same type of argument. Maybe it’s a matter of degree in terms of the difference. But the notion is: Will...
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by Newsweek about the claims that Trump's federalization of law enforcement in D.C. was racist. The sources Lott provided in an email to the reporter are shown below the quotes from the article. It was published at Revista La Velez and...
Dr. John Lott talked to Fox News about who benefits Trump's federalization of policing in D.C. . "You go 13 days without a homicide occurring, those homicides would have invariably been very heavily Black," John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention...
On Friday morning's The National Report on Newsmax, reporter Jason Mattera presented a piece highlighting evidence that the mass shooter in Minneapolis chose to target a school in part because it was a gun-free zone, citing the Crime Prevention Research...
Dr. John Lott was interviewed at Fox News about the current debate over policing. . Fox News Digital spoke with Crime Prevention Research Center founder John Lott, who said resistance to Trump’s anti-crime blitz echoes the defund the police movement since both...
Vince Coglianese on his national radio show on August 25th discusses our estimates of the probability that the drop in D.C.'s homicide rate after Trump federalization of policing is just a random occurrence. Vince Coglianese: "The Great John Lott from the Crime...
The top story on the Fox News website features an interview Dr. John Lott did on the Minneapolis and other mass murderers targeting gun-free zones. John Lott, the founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital about some of the...
A new analysis by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) found that the FBI has understated the number of times armed civilians have stopped active shooter incidents in the United States. According to the FBI, civilians stopped just 14 out of 374 active shooter...
Washington, D.C., faces one of the nation's worst crime crises — with murder and robbery rates dwarfing those of entire states, according to FBI data. While national crime statistics already capture only a fraction of offenses — just 40% of violent...
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt again Tweets out our new op-ed piece at The Federalist titled: "D.C.’s Murder Rate Is More Than 500% Higher Than The Average State." (Wednesday, August 20, 2025)
Under the heading "Trump Admin Efforts Could Sharply Reduce DC Crime," President Donald Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt retweeted one of our opinion pieces on Trump federalizing D.C.'s police force. (Tuesday, August 12, 2025)