The U.S. employs two distinct measures of crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting program counts the number of crimes reported to police annually. The Bureau of Justice Statistics, in its National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), asks...
The American news media has been working overtime to convince people that violent crime is dramatically falling. Here are typical headlines from ABC News and NPR. "US stats show violent crime dramatically falling, so why is there a rising clash with perception? 'I...
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Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall that continues our investigation into the problems with the FBI crime data. The news media relies almost exclusively on FBI data to report on changes in crime rates. But there is strong evidence that FBI data...
When USA Today had two articles claiming that Trump was wrong in claiming that crime was increasing, Dr. John Lott submitted the following letter to the editor, but the newspaper didn't run the letter. Dear Letters Editor: USA Today erroneously dismisses former...
The CPRC's Nikki Goeser has a new op-ed in the Tennessean. . My husband Ben and I used to run a mobile karaoke business in Nashville. . Every Thursday evening, we would load up our vehicle and head to a popular restaurant to help facilitate a night of good music and...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal. News outlets claim that Americans mistakenly believe violent crime is rising. A Gallup survey last year found that 92% of Republicans and 58% of Democrats thought crime was increasing. A February...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall In 2023, New Orleans had the third highest per capita murder rate in the country according to the FBI. Last week, New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick claimed that the city can lower...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Missoulian. . Will Sen. Jon Tester provide the necessary vote this week to hold an impeachment trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas? Democrats might think that they can protect vulnerable Democrats such as...
John Lott and Colorado state Representative Ryan Armagost have a piece in Colorado's second largest newspaper the Colorado Springs Gazette. . Credit card companies soon might be tracking purchases of firearms and ammunition in Colorado. A bill that would flag...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. . Last week, New York’s progressive Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, claimed he doesn't believe increasing penalties deters crime. He said: . "I was simply asked a question of, ‘Do I believe that increasing penalties deters...
https://youtu.be/b24Qep3c2nE Dr. John Lott gave a talk at VDARE's Spring 2024 Conference on immigration and the collapse of law enforcement in the US. Dr. Lott disagreed with the concerns regarding legal immigration and also pointed out that many gun control laws...
Crime Prevention Research Center fellow Amanda Collins Johnson talked about being raped in college and her advocacy for “campus carry” gun laws. This event was hosted on February 29th, 2024 by the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women in Virginia. C-SPAN...
Dr. John Lott taught two classes on statistics at Lake Forest College on January 23rd. While the lectures weren’t recorded, the PowerPoint of Lott’s lecture is available here. Here is an audio of the lecture for the first class that Lott gave. (Tuesday, January 23,...
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on his national radio shows about his new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled "The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It: The decline in reported crimes is a function of less reporting, not less crime." (Thursday,...
Dr. John Lott talked to Cheryl Chumley on the Washington Times' Bold & Blunt Podcast about his new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled "The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It: The decline in reported crimes is a function of less reporting,...
Dr. John Lott appeared on RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 to discuss reports that crime rates are declining. See also Dr. Lott's new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled "The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It." Carl Cannon,...
Dr. John Lott appeared on the national Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham to discuss the real reason crime is down across the nation. See also Dr. Lott's new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled "The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It: The decline in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l_TMTqdz4U In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison inmates only broke down the numbers for uses in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few rifles,...
Strangely, it was very difficult to find a picture of Joshua Cobb, the ex-Marine who made this threat, in any news story outside of the local media market. "As of today I have officially began planning my attack. It is going to take place in 2023 in the state of New...