In an article on the soaring murder rate in Baltimore, Fox News quoted John Lott as saying: “In case people ever needed a reminder, the increase in Baltimore’s murder rate shows how important police are," John Lott, president of Crime Prevention Research Centerand a...
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CPRC on the Michigan Talk Network talking about the importance of police in reducing crime
John Lott talked to Steve Gruber at 6:45 AM on Tuesday, May 26th about the importance of police in reducing crime.
CPRC in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Twisting statistics to smear cops”
John Lott's latest piece at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review starts this way: False claims about police brutality are poisoning race relations. This feeling of “unfairness,” as President Obama noted in his weekly address on May 16, is “fuel(ing) the kind of unrest that...
Is this really a big surprise?: “In Baltimore, Arrests Down and Crime Up”
Police are afraid if they arrest someone or confront a criminal something will go wrong -- that the criminal will die or get hurt and the police officer will become the official criminal. From the Wall Street Journal: The number of arrests has fallen here since...
CPRC on The Blaze TV: Discussing President Obama’s new rules on so-called “militarization” of police
The video here has the first four minutes of the seven minutes that John Lott was on the show. Fox News has some detailed information here: the White House said that effective immediately, the federal government will no longer fund or provide armored vehicles that run...
CPRC at Investors Business Daily: The same people who want to disarm police also want to disarm poor blacks
John Lott's newest piece at Investors Business Daily: Police aren't always there to protect people — not in Baltimore, not in Ferguson and not when the average person has to confront a criminal. This is particularly true in the poorest sections of town. Even police...
Data on police officers killed by guns
The Washington Post has compiled a list of 511 police officers who have been killed by guns from 2000 to 2010. Information is available on shooting deaths at traffic stops (91), ambushes (43), arrests (29), domestic disturbances (75), serving papers (40), responding...
CPRC on the Sean Hannity Radio Show to discuss the Obama administration’s claims about racism in Ferguson Police Department
John Lott appeared on the Sean Hannity Radio Show from 5:06 to 5:20 PM on Monday, March 16th, 2015 to discuss the Obama administration's claims about racism in Ferguson Police Department (audio available here).
CPRC in the New York Post: “Ferguson fake out: Justice Department’s bogus report”
John Lott's piece in the New York Post starts this way (for those interested in reading the original DOJ report on Ferguson it is available here): Addressing the nation from Selma, Ala., on Saturday, President Obama said that while racism may be “no longer endemic,”...
CPRC in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review: Comments on FBI Director James Comey’s recent speech on police and race
John Lott's newest piece in the starts this way: FBI Director James Comey's recent speech on police and race was about as politically incorrect a speech as you will get these days from a high-ranking government official. Comey acknowledges “the existence of...
CPRC in Fox News: Police are extremely Law-abiding, but concealed handgun permit holders are even more so
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: . . . Gun control advocates just can’t accept the fact that concealed handgun permit holders are incredibly law-abiding. The New York Times’ recent attack on permit holders is typical. It is filled with...
Updated: Comparing conviction rates between police and concealed carry permit holders
A recent study provides numbers on police convictions over a three-year period from January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2007. This data was put together by doing news searches on media sources throughout the US. There are two reasons that their method makes police...