Instead of relying on incomplete FBI data, Republicans point to the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey, which John Lott, founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center, tells RCP is the “gold standard” in crime statistics because it includes both reported and unreporte...

Television show bias against guns is never-ending. Except for a couple of episodes on Paramount’s Yellowstone, you won’t see an entertainment television show with a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively (from being ...

People remember how Kamala Harris urged people to donate to the MN Freedom Fund on June 1, 2020, to help bail out the George Floyd rioters. Harris strongly supported removing funds from police and moving the funds to welfare, housing, health care, and other benefits. Kamala Harris on ABC (June 8, 2...

Deland, Florida, April 1, 2024 (WFTV.com) Deputies responded to Dixie’s Gentlemen’s Club along US-17 near DeLand shortly before 2 a.m… Detectives said Collins pulled a gun on another man outside the nightclub, and believe that man fired a shot at Collins’ vehicle in self-defense. The man who fired ...

Highlights American confidence in law enforcement, which has always been high regardless of demographics, has reached new heights. Police community relations are improving. It’s the… The post U.S. Confidence In American Policing Dramatically Improves appeared first on Crime in America.Net.

This is one reason that gun control advocates are extremely upset about JD Vance being Trump’s vice presidential nominee. JD Vance’s grandmother, who raised him, had 19 loaded handguns in her home when she died. He says that because she had a hard time moving around, she spread them out all around ...

As we have pointed out before, there are lots of problems with crime data from across the country. Now comes concern that the reported drop in crimes in Oakland, California might be about half what the city is claiming. . . . Statistics published by the police department showed year-to-year crime h...

Dr. John Lott was interviewed by the editor of America’s First Freedom, Frank Miniter, about the problems with the FBI crime data. Our previous research on this topic can be found here and here. Our op-eds on this are available here and here.

Dr. John Lott talked to the guest host Doug Collins on America First with Sebastian Gorka about the Biden Administration’s attempts to suppress the Second Amendment rights. (Friday, June 28, 2024)

According to gun expert and founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) John Lott, who served as the senior advisor for Research and Statistics in the Office of Justice Programs and then the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice during the Trump administration, suggest...

As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, CBS’ FBI Most Wanted is no different (Season 5 Episode 9, April 16, 2024). This episode shows criminals using machine guns to com...

Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review. ‘Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and adolescents,” U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy saidlast week, calling the situation a “public health crisis.” It has been a favorite talking point of the Biden White House. Both Presiden...