Our research at Real Clear Investigations on the "Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats" continues to receive extensive media attention. John R. Lott, the President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, drives...
Media Discussion on CPRC
Even More Coverage of Our Real Clear Investigations Report, CPRC in the News: The Daily Wire, The Federalist, American Thinker, Broad & Liberty, Patriot Post, and More
Multiple legacy media outlets that covered the FBI’s report on violent crime going down in 2022 have ignored the bureau’s major revision,which shows that violent crime increased that year. In September 2023, the FBI claimed that data showed violent crime...
Glenn Beck Show Discusses Our Work
The Glenn Beck Show discussed our Real Clear Investigation piece on the FBI and violent crime. Dr. Lott's new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations is here: "Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats." Glenn Beck's show is listened to by 8.75...
FBI Finally Responds to the Real Clear Investigations Research that Shows the FBI Secretly Changed 2022 Crime Data from a Drop to an Increase. Kansas City Star: “Judging from the ridiculous answer the FBI sent me, the right-wing media reports are true.”
A writer at the Kansas City Star, David Mastio, received a response from the FBI (we never did). Mastio's bottom line is: "Here’s what I’ve learned in decades of covering Washington: When bad news is false, agency press people go out of their way to make it crystal...
At Fox News: FBI quietly updates crime data to show big jump in violence under Biden-Harris admin: ‘Shocking’
Dr. John Lott spoke to Fox News Digital regarding how the FBI updated its violent crime stats for 2022, showing an increase in violent crimes, not a decrease. (Fox News, Wednesday, October 16, 2024) https://youtu.be/HSbeNHT99PM The Federal Bureau of...
Fox News’ Gutfeld! Mentions Our Research
https://rumble.com/v5j3631-fox-news-gutfeld-mentions-our-research.html Fox News' Gutfeld! discussed our Real Clear Investigation piece on the FBI and violent crime. Dr. Lott’s new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations is here: “Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly...
Fox News’ Gutfeld! Mentions Our Research, Second Night in a Row
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEQu-mWsMsM Fox News' Gutfeld! discussed our Real Clear Investigation piece on the FBI and violent crime. Dr. Lott’s new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations is here: “Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats.”...
Dan Bongino Show Mentions Our Research
The Dan Bongino Show discussed our Real Clear Investigation piece on the FBI and violent crime. Dr. Lott's new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations is here: “Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats.” Glenn Beck's show is listened to by 8.5...
News Coverage of our Real Clear Investigations Piece on “Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats”
Former President Donald Trump has been hit with numerous “fact-checks” on the campaign trail that have cited FBI statistics to maintain violent crime is falling in America. However, the bureau quietly adjusted its figures for 2022 in recent weeks — and...
CPRC in the News: Daily Caller, Townhall, MRC NewsBusters, Fox/CBS TV Indianapolis, and much more
The letter asks several questions to the FBI, such as if they omitted any data from various major cities, how many agencies provided incomplete data and if the data would be retroactively adjusted to reflect an increase in violent crime, like it had in...
On WMAL: Vince Coglianese mentioned CPRC’s Research on Misleading Crime Statistics
During the first hour of WMAL's The Vince Coglianese Show with Mary Katherine Hamm on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, Vince mentioned our research on the problem with official crime statistics. See also Dr. Lott’s op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled “The Media Say...
CPRC in the News: Washington Times, Newsweek, Red State, Akron Beacon Journal, Wyoming Tribune Eagle, and much more.
John Lott of the Crime Research Center points out that the government maintains two crime measures. The first is the Uniform Crime Reporting program, which is based on crimes reported to the police and forwarded to the FBI. How these reports are filed and reported was...