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 this rate by creating a“firearm-free” zone encompassing the French Qu...

Dr. John Lott talked to Jennifer Grossman on The Atlas Society Asks about his book “Gun Control Myths: How politicians, the media, and botched “studies” have twisted the facts on gun control.“ (Wednesday, March 27, 2024, from 5:00 to 6:00 PM ET)

From One America News: “Texas Sen. John Cornyn was the first to announce his campaign to replace Mitch McConnell as the senate’s GOP leader, but now Dr. John Lott president of the Crime Prevention Research Center says that Cornyn’s race for a senate leadership post could expose his lack of support ...

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 240,000 people a year whether the...

Dr. John Lott appeared on Securing America with Frank Gaffney to discuss his new piece with Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) at The Federalist titled: “Biden’s Federal ‘Red Flag’ Center Defies The Constitution In More Ways Than One.” (Sunday, March 31, 2024) 

Dr. John Lott talked on Chicago’s most popular morning talk program, WIND-AM’s Morning Answer, about a wide range of topics including the fatal shooting of an NYPD cop during the car stop, the Biden administration’s launch of a new federal ‘red flag’ center targeting gun owners, and how artificial ...

Dr. John Lott talked to fill-in host Dr. Maria Ryan on Lou Dobbs Tonight to discuss CPRC’s new research about how artificial intelligence chatbots fit in the ideological scale. See also Dr. Lott’s new piece at Real Clear Politics titled “AI’s Left-wing Bias on Crime and Gun Control.” (Tuesday, Marc...

The American news media has been working over time 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 don’t believe the statistics,'”‘ ...

I want to introduce you to Laura Daniel, the CPRC’s new executive director. Laura has an extensive political lobbying, PR, and management background. While the CPRC doesn’t do political lobbying, we can definitely use her other skills.

A new Economist/YouGov poll confirms what we have seen before in surveys: high income people as well as liberals and Democrats are the least concerned about crime, though other surveys also show that those with a graduate school education are also the least concerned. Interestingly, while Democrats...

“The goal that the enemies were pursuing were to cut the gas in the major provinces of the country and it did not happen.”

A private school in Los Angeles serving the city's Black and Latino youth has been forced to close its doors over public safety concerns stemming from the homeless crisis, a lawsuit alleges.