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...
From fast food restaurants to coffee shops to grocery stores, police are finding that they are being refused service. The big change is that in the past the problem involved individual employees and the companies would apologize, but now it is something that the...
Being a police officer has gotten more dangerous. I have heard of stories where police are changing out of their uniforms before picking up their children at school, that they have moved well out of their cities, to avoid people upset with them being police. Reports...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall.com on Dallas' move to institute a stronger police review board. The piece starts this way: Community trust is crucial to effective policing, so it’s imperative that officers not think that they can get away with...
For 29 years, the National Association of Chiefs of Police has conducted annual surveys of how police chiefs view gun regulations. (Click on survey results to enlarge.) The last couple of surveys ask a different question than the earlier ones. The most recent...
Over the last couple of decades, it is hard to see any particular pattern in the number of police officers who have been murdered in the line of duty, but the pattern for ambush killings, attacks that involved premeditation is a different story. During the years from...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal. These are just a few of the nutty things in the new EU rules on gun ownership that were approved Wednesday by a Parliamentary committee. The full Parliament still has to vote on the bill. Below are the rules...
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at National Review starts this way: Democrats keep using shootings of police officers to push for more gun control. Having just arrived in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention, the Reverend Jesse Jackson complained on...
86.4% of the US's Chiefs of Police and Sheriffs "support nationwide recognition of state issued concealed weapon permits." 76% of those same heads of departments believe that "qualified, law-abiding armed citizens help law enforcement reduce violent criminal...
Dr. John Lott was quoted by Fox News about the new DC Circuit Court Decision on whether DC has to follow the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act that allows retired Law Enforcement with at least 10 years experience to carry concealed. Four former prison guards who...
Interview with Eagles of Death Metal vocalist Jesse Hughes, who discussed the Bataclan attack in Paris that killed 89 of his fans. We had eight police officers in our audience that night. They all had the same conversation with their wives, which was “Should I bring...
John Lott was interviewed by Fox News about whether the NFL should ban off-duty police from carrying their service weapons at games. “Off-duty police had been carrying their guns with them at NFL games from the time the NFL started until about a year-and-a-half ago,...