https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JdauQlV4pSg Why do Democrats worry that Community Watch Anti-crime signs will not be welcoming? A key 2008 DOJ meta-analysis, Does Neighborhood Watch Reduce Crime? reviewed 18 evaluations and concluded that the majority of programs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C8sEZ9COCY Television crime shows continue to portray frequent murders with machine guns. The Crime Prevention Research Center has repeatedly shown that these depictions are far from reality, yet many shows still suggest that criminals...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at The Federalist. . Summary: If policymakers and advocates are serious about reducing such incidents, the focus needs to shift toward measures that directly address the factors involved. . As is so typical, just hours after the...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on the claims that the violence is coming from the right. It was also reprinted at Zero Hedge, Yahoo! News, The Ohio Press Network, and Fairfield Times, Great Falls Leader, and Sun Valley Sun (Montana). . Violence...
For decades we have written extensively on the dangers of gun-free zones. Gradually gun-free zones have been eliminated. . A new state law set to take effect July 1 will allow churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship to use armed volunteers for...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Union Leader with New Hampshire state Representative Samuel Farrington (R), who is the primary sponsor of the Campus Carry bill that will be voted on this coming week in the state Senate Judiciary Committee. . News media coverage...
UPDATE: Data directly from the Federal Police shows a different set of numbers (Original Post below). The number of CAC licenses in Brazil increased from 867,472 in 2022 to 1,026,633 in 2026 (see screenshots below), but those are internal government numbers that links...
The Washington Post doesn't really want to give President Trump credit for the drop in crime in DC. Please look at the graph above and notice that there was a discrete change in August and September 2025 (and the change only started about half way through August on...
With news that a U.S. soldier was arrested for winning $400,000 for Polymarket bets on Maduro's capture, there hasn't been a huge coverage of politicians voting on insider in their races on Kalshi. This isn't politicians betting on insider information on government...
Prosecutors can take months to decide whether to pursue charges in a shooting, even when the person who pulled the trigger clearly acted in self-defense or in defense of others. In this case, however, Wayne County prosecutors moved quickly and determined that the...
The TSN has also kept trans in a state of fearful paranoia by claiming a “trans genocide,” which has played a role in dramatically increasing the numbers of trans engaging in mass shooting attacks. Dr. John R. Lott puts trans at 0.73% of the...
On April 15, 2026, Elon Musk retweeted our video with John Stossel on the errors in the FBI's active shooting data. Musk's retweet received over 45 million impressions. This is the second time that Musk as retweeted the video, and when he tweeted it out before it...