Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Biden claims that he wants to restore safety and control crime. He denounced efforts to “defund” the police. But with congressional elections coming up, he lacked any...
People can download a copy of our research at the journal available here and at SSRN here. Abstract Using a unique data set we link the race of police officers who kill suspects with the race of those who are killed across the United States. We have data on a total of...
CBS' S.W.A.T. makes the claim that all police support "common sense"/reasonable gun control (Season 5 Episode 6, Nov 12, 2021). The question is what constitutes "reasonable" gun control laws. What most police might think qualifies as "reasonable" is not what the...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on how the Derek Chauvin trial was conducted. The Derek Chauvin trial was a travesty. Prosecutors were allowed to break all the rules. Whether that was because Judge Peter Cahill is a Democrat in a heavily Democrat area and...
After Derek Chauvin's conviction on Tuesday, Joe Biden claimed: Today, a jury in Minnesota found former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd last May. It was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the...
Democrats don't like police. They don't view the police as the solution for crime. That is at least if you believe Perry Bacon's piece at 538 summarizing the current views in the Democratic Party. Interestingly, they don't include anything on gun control presumably...
Joe Biden's Deputy State Department Spokesperson Jalina Porter has a history of believing that police are a serious threat to the US. In one Facebook post, she wrote: "The largest threat to US national security are [sic] US cops. Not ISIS, not Russian hackers, not any...
With the movement to defund police all the rage, gun-control activists now don’t trust police with guns. The Trace, a Bloomberg-funded outlet dedicated to gun-control advocacy, is probably at odds with police in part because officers are so overwhelmingly in favor of...
Murders this year are 33 percent higher so far than in 2019 -- 246 people killed in 2019 to 327 people killed in 2020, according to New York Police Department data released Friday. Shooting incidents are up 92% so far compared to 2019 -- 608 shootings in 2019 versus...
Among the calls that police didn't respond to included: "Call types ranged from theft, vandalism, suspicious activity, hazards, hit and run, burglary, violation of restraining order, alarms, stolen cars, harassment and many others.” From Fox News: More than 60...
Dr. John Lott appeared for a full hour of the Sean Hannity radio show on August 7th, 2020. John Lott, President, Crime Prevention Research Center and author of a the new book “Gun Control Myths” which was released on 7/4 and Leo Terrell, American civil rights attorney...
Detroit Police Chief James Craig talked to Tucker Carlson on Fox News about why Detroit hasn't had the riots that other cities have seen. I am just ecstatic over the men and women in the Detroit Police Department. One thing I learned from my time in Los Angeles: We...