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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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...
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new piece at The Federalist. A Democrat-controlled Congress authorized the president to give grants to states that have red flag laws, but never was he authorized to establish a federal red flag center. On...
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 appeared on One America News Network’s Tipping Point to discuss his new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal on the collapse in law enforcement. The media says crime is down because official FBI statistics say so, and yet more people than ever before are...
https://youtu.be/vX0WSqNzLPo?si=IT4sRb6GSms8H-QR Dr. John Lott talked on Chicago’s most popular morning talk program, WIND-AM’s Morning Answer, about his new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled "The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It." (Monday,...
Dr. John Lott appeared on AM 980 CJME's The Evan Bray Show in Canada to discuss the findings of CPRC’s new research on artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots’ liberal bias concerning crime and gun control. See also Dr. Lott’s new op-ed at Real Clear...
Here is the letter that the WSJ published in response to Dr. John Lott's op-ed. . Our New Shoplifting Policy: Employees are being told not to confront store theft. . I agree with John Lott (“The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It,” op-ed, April 25) that...
Rasmussen Reports has done several polls over the year asking whether likely voters in America think that violent crime is getting worse. We wanted to compare polls over the last year to see if there has been a change in people's views. But despite the media's attempt...
"One false claim by @JoeBiden after another," Crime Prevention Research Center president John R Lott Jr. wrote. . . . Alexander Hall, "Biden takes heat over strange cannibal story: 'Like something out of a bad script'," Fox News, April 20, 2024. The Bureau of Justice...