PoliceOne surveyed 450,000 members – 380,000 active-duty and 70,000 retired law enforcement officers. A March 2013 survey by the group found 86 percent of members believing that casualties from mass public school shootings (such as the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary...
From John Lott's newest piece at Fox News: Since 1991, murder and violent crime have plummeted in the U. S. But in a widely discussed op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled "The New Nationwide Crime Wave,” Heather Mac Donald recently made a startling claim: “Gun...
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...
John Lott talked to Steve Gruber at 6:45 AM on Tuesday, May 26th about the importance of police in reducing crime.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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).
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,”...
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...