Walter Williams' latest national column on policing: To solve this problem, they want police departments to hire more black police officers. It turns out that the U.S. Justice Department has found that black police officers in San Francisco and Philadelphia are...
Daily Post (Los Alamos, New Mexico), February 6, 2017 Persons supporting this bill have have argued that this bill would prevent violent gun crimes. Let’s look at the crime statistics from states that have adopted similar legislation. Dr. John Lott Jr., found in his...
Besides the extensive coverage that we received in the Associated Press, here are some of the media attention that we received. National Review, January 25, 2017 Over at the Crime Research Prevention Center, John Lott Jr. notes that the number of “constitutional...
Despite us emphasizing the Associated Press reporter with how incredibly rare any problems were with carrying guns at legislatures and noting that not one had been harmed in those cases, the reporter focused the very rare, minor problems that have occurred. The AP...
Fox Business, January 9, 2017; Yahoo News!, January 9, 2017; Yahoo Finance!, January 9, 2017 “Quite simply, the Ft. Lauderdale airport is a gun-free zone," Pratt stated. "In fact, the Crime Prevention Research Center reports that 'Florida is one of only six states...
The One America News Network, which is the fourth largest cable news network and has greater viewership than Fox Business News and Bloomberg TV, had an interview with Dr. John Lott about the problems with the gun background check system. To many Americans, gun...
Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, ID) Lead story, December 29, 2016 . . . In December 2012, 85,535 Idaho adults had concealed weapons permits, according to a report published by the Pennsylvania-based Crime Prevention Research Center. As of December 2016, 131,665 Idaho...
This article appeared on Monday, December 26, 2016: Despite an intense national focus on high-profile police shootings involving white officers and black men, a new study shows that white officers are not statistically more likely to shoot and kill a black suspect....
The Dominion Post (Morgantown, West Virginia), December 18, 2016 Morgantown City Council will once again take aim at determining whether firearms should be allowed in municipal buildings, and if so, who should be permitted to carry them. The issue is among those...
New York Post, November 30, 2016 The media is “incredulous” over Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud, notes John Lott at the Daily Caller, yet illegal votes have “mattered in plenty of elections” — and fraud still occurs today. Lott cites Lyndon Johnson’s 1948...
A copy of our new study is available here. The previous coverage that we got at Fox News is available here. PoliceOne.com, Friday, November 18, 2016 A new study authored by the Crime Prevention Research Center digs deep into the data during a period that ‘bookends’...
Fox News interviewed Dr. John Lott about the impact that Donald Trump's election will have on gun sales. “A lot of people were buying guns simply because they were worried Hillary Clinton’s regulations would make it more costly and more difficult to buy guns, and...