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...
John Lott at the CPRC and Carl Moody at the College of William & Mary and the CPRC have a new study on police shootings (a copy of the study is available here). Fox News had a top of the page news story about our study: The day after a Minnesota cop was charged...
This appeared on C-SPAN on November 11, 2016, at 4:47 PM.
Chattanooga Time Free Press, October 31, 2016 Since 2007, concealed carry permits for women have increased by 270 percent nationwide, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center. But the fashion aspect of carrying is not just for the sake of fashion, it's also...
Dr. John Lott's analysis caught a big error in CDC data on accidental gun deaths, that made the number of deaths look 21% larger than it actually was. From Fox News: Federal data showing annual accidental gun deaths in Tennessee soared to 105 from just 19 propelled a...
NBC News, October , 2016; WRCB TV (Chattanooga, TN), October 26, 2016; Inland News Today (Riverside, CA), October 26, 2016 If anyone has a bone to pick with the Johns Hopkins report, it is John Lott. He is an economist and author of "The War on Guns: Arming Yourself...
The CPRC provided a little bit of balance in an article on the release of a new gun tracing report by the New York Attorney General. . . . But John R. Lott Jr., the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center in Pennsylvania, disagreed. “That’s like finding out...
County employees in Garland County, Arkansas will now be able to carry permitted concealed handguns at work. From the Sentinel-Record: Justices of the peace defeated repeated motions Monday night to give the Garland County Employee Concealed Carry Plan more...