Ironically at the same time that Democrats in the House impeached Donald Trump for supposedly inciting the January 6th riot, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee hires as a Senior Advisor someone who last year lauded “Looting as a Vital form of social...
shootings by police
In the Dallas Morning News: Data call into question supposed benefits of police review boards
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece in the Dallas Morning News on the proposal to have a police review board. The chairman of the Dallas Citizens Police Review Board has a piece that is paired with Lott's and is available here. Lott's piece starts this way: Community...
At Townhall: Why O’Rourke’s Rhetoric on Police Shootings Is Wrong—And Dangerous
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com on the claims of systematic racism by police that starts this way: Would you describe police as the “new Jim Crow”? That is what Democrat Senate nominee Beto O’Rourke recently told students at Prairie View A&M...
At Townhall.com: Police Officers Are Not Disproportionately Killing Black Men—Here Are the Facts
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com on some of the claims in the Texas Senate race. Democrats have a new hero in Beto O’Rourke, who is campaigning against Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Hatred for Cruz is enough to get Democrats excited by the prospect of unseating...
At Fox News: “NFL kneeling protests based on false claims and misleading media reports”
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Fox News that is based upon our research done by the CPRC on police shootings. The piece starts as follow: The NFL players kneeling during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” in football stadiums across the country are...
Revised our research on police shootings
We have worked hard to revise and expand our research on police shootings. We are proud of this research, and strongly recommend that people download it and read it. The study is available here. Abstract Using a unique new data set on police-involved homicides, we...
CPRC’s Research Discussed in the Washington Times: “Study upends narrative of racist white officers”
This article appeared on Monday, December 26, 2016: Despite an intense national focus on high-profile police shootings involving white officers and black men, a new study shows that white officers are not statistically more likely to shoot and kill a black suspect....
CPRC on the Greg Garrison Show on WIBC FM to discuss our new research on police shootings
Dr. John Lott talked to Greg Garrison about the CPRC's new work on police shootings. (Wednesday, November 30, 2016 from 12:35 to 1:00 PM)
Much more Coverage of CPRC Research: “Do White Police Officers Unfairly Target Black Suspects?”
A copy of our new study is available here. The previous coverage that we got at Fox News is available here. PoliceOne.com, Friday, November 18, 2016 A new study authored by the Crime Prevention Research Center digs deep into the data during a period that ‘bookends’...
NEW CPRC Research gets attention in Fox News: “White police officers don’t unfairly target black suspects, study says”
John Lott at the CPRC and Carl Moody at the College of William & Mary and the CPRC have a new study on police shootings (a copy of the study is available here). Fox News had a top of the page news story about our study: The day after a Minnesota cop was charged...
CPRC on the Laura Ingraham Show: Dallas Police Shootings and Obama’s false claims
Dr. John Lott talked with host Laura Ingraham about President Obama's irresponsible words and false claims in the days after the Dallas Police Shootings. Obama went on national television to tell us all that many police are racist while using discredited data to make...
CPRC on Sandy Rios’ national radio show to discuss police shootings and what might motivate them
John Lott talked to Sandy Rios about recent shootings of police officers and what might motivate these attacks (Tuesday, September 1, 2015, 8:15 to 8:50 AM). Part 1 Part 2 American Family Radio stations are shown here.