Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall on the social and other problems facing police officers. Two police officers were murdered in Texas over the weekend, bringing this year’s national total to 34. Being a police officer is a dangerous job, but police nowadays...
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At Townhall: Biden’s Policing Policies Will Endanger Police, Raise Crime Rates, and Hurt Blacks
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about Biden's comments this week on policing. Joe Biden doesn’t understand the risks and dangers involved in policing. Police have a tough and dangerous job, and armored military vehicles, shields and military-grade body armor...
At Real Clear Politics: Selective Media Reporting Further Fuels Our Racial Divide
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. It was reprinted at the Daily Signal and the Federalist on July 10th and ZeroHedge and Instapundit on July 8th. On Saturday, a man drove his car onto a Seattle freeway that had been closed by a Black Lives Matter...
At Townhall: Democrat hypocrisy: Private Security for Themselves, Defund Police and Banning Carrying Concealed Handguns for Others
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about how Democrat politicians play by different rules when it comes to their safety. Do you want to understand what defunding the police really means? Just look at the looting and violence that happened when police were...
At Real Clear Politics: Media Ignores Facts to Claim a Trump Gotcha
Dr. John Lott has another piece at Real Clear Politics on media bias regarding crime rates and Trump. The media keeps going out of its way to fact check President Trump’s claims as false. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump is one of many journalists who can’t be...
At Townhall: Democrats Can’t Condemn Violence, Including Violence Against Police
Dr. John Lott has a piece at Townhall on the current debate about defunding the police. What does defunding the police really mean? Well, just look at the looting and violence that happened when police were ordered to stand down during recent riots.Everyone agrees –...
At Townhall: Academia’s Push to Fire Even the Few Academics Who Don’t Tow the Leftist Line
Dr. John Lott has a piece at Townhall that involves both academic freedom and our research on crime. University of Chicago Professor Harald Uhlig's comments are viewed as unacceptable by many academics, but they make perfect sense to us at the Crime Prevention...
At Real Clear Politics: Why the New York Times Capitulated
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on how what happened to Senator Tom Cotton at the New York Times is actually an all too common story. On Sunday, New York Times opinion editor James Bennet resigned after daring to publish an opinion column by...
At The Federalist: Let’s Look at the Actual Facts About Alleged Racism of Police
Dr. John Lott has a piece on the claims about systematic racism by police at the Federalist. Police officer Derek Chauvin’s killing of a black man, George Floyd, this past week launched protests and riots across the country. Despite there being no evidence yet that...
At the Washington Times: Liberal politicians who order police to stand down are the same people who want to ban guns
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times about liberals apparently Minneapolis and other major cities have finally re-opened, at least to looters and arsonists. For three days, police in Minneapolis and St. Paul were ordered to stand down as rioters...
At Townhall: The System Has Failed People of All Races—I Know From Experience
The CPRC's Executive Director, Nikki Goeser, has an op-ed at Townhall that points out that while people focus on race, lots of other people have felt let down by the system. After you read this, if you live in Tennessee, you might want to email the governor and make...
At Townhall: Twitter’s Inconsistent Standards in Deleting Tweets from Trump to Kaepernick
The political bias by social media has continued. At the Crime Prevention Research Center, we have dealt with social media bias direction many times (see here for some of our posts). Here is Dr. John Lott's latest piece on political bias by Twitter. Twitter is not...




