We have some new research that I think is really important. While the American news media has been working overtime to convince people that violent crime is dramatically falling and castigating Americans for falsely believing that crime is increasing, our new research shows that Americans are right and the media is wrong. Arrest rates have plummeted since COVID, with only 20% of reported violent crimes and 4.5% of reported property crimes in cities with over one million people in 2022 resulting in an arrest. As arrest rates have fallen, people have been less likely to report crimes to police, and criminals have been committing more crime as they have little to worry about, so reported crimes have fallen even as total crimes have risen. To show how law enforcement is collapsing, in these large cities, only 8% of all violent crimes and 1.4% of property crimes result in an arrest. I hope you will look at this, and that it gets a lot of attention, so please share it.
Our other research shows that over 92% of violent crimes over the last eight years have not involved guns. It doesn’t exactly fit the frequent claim that violent crime is a gun problem.
Congressman Thomas Massie and I have an op-ed at The Federalist that takes the Biden administration to task for violating the law and establishing the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center in the US Department of Justice. We explain the dangers of these laws. I discussed our piece and other gun control issues on Sean Hannity’s national radio show, the most listened-to talk radio show with an audience of about 16 million people. The interview went very well, and I highly recommend it. WMAL’s Vince Coglianese and One America’s News’ Tipping Point also had me on to talk about our piece.
Other interviews with the Bill Martinez Show, The Statewide Montana Talks Network, and What’s on Your Mind (a radio network covering Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and eastern Montana) discussed my earlier op-ed in The Federalist on Senator John Cornyn’s abysmal record on gun control.
The political bias in entertainment TV continues. NBC’s Law & Order provides another example of a defensive gun use gone wrong and CBS’s new show Tracker takes the gun control mantra that Stand Your Ground laws let you fatally shoot people even when they aren’t threatening anyone.
Another post shows how relatively few Democrats, liberals, and high-income are very concerned about violent crime, while blacks, women, and conservatives are most concerned. That poll fits in with our new research showing how total crime is dramatically increasing. Two other posts discuss how the criminal justice system failed in both the murder of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller and the SUV mass murderer in Waukesha, Wisconsin a couple of Christmases ago.
This past week, I also gave a talk at the Florida State University Law School on how gun control discriminates against the poor and minorities. I hope to have a video of that talk in my next email to you.
The CPRC has a new executive director, Laura Liberty.
We have also continued collecting cases where people legally carrying guns in public have stopped crimes. Here are the cases that we collected for December
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Research
The Collapse in Law Enforcement: As Arrest Rates Plummet, People Have Been Less Willing to Report Crime
Percent of Violent Crime Not Involving Guns Falls Slightly, Averages 92.1% Over Last Eight Years.
Op-eds
At The Federalist: Biden’s Federal ‘Red Flag’ Center Defies The Constitution In More Ways Than One
Real Clear Politics: AI’s Left-wing Bias on Crime and Gun Control.
Recent Talks
Debate on the Second Amendment at the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Audio of first Lecture on Statistics at Lake Forest College.
Television interviews/Podcasts
On One America News’ Tipping Point: To Discuss Biden Admin’s ‘Federal Red Flag Center’ and AI’s Left-wing Bias
On Patriot TV’s Making Sense of the Madness with Jason Bermas: To Discuss Gun Rights
Crime Prevention Research Center fellow Amanda Collins Johnson talked about being raped in college and her advocacy for “campus carry” gun laws
On One America News’ Tipping Point: If You Like The Second Amendment, You Don’t Want John Cornyn Anywhere Near Senate Leadership.
Radio interviews/Podcasts
Definitely worth listening to: On the Sean Hannity Show: Discussing Biden’s New ‘Red Flag’ Office
On the Vince Coglianese Show: Discussing Biden Admin’s Launch of ‘Red Flag’ Center
On the Chris Salcedo Radio Show: To Discuss Biden’s Classified Documents Investigation and “Zero Tolerance” Policy
Worth Listening to: On Alaska’s Michael Dukes Show: To Discuss Shelly Hughes’ Bill Granting Qualified Persons an Assigned Duty to Carry a Concealed Handgun on School Grounds
On the Lars Larson Show: To Discuss the Latest FBI Quarterly Uniform Crime Report
On The Michigan Talk Network: To Discuss An Obama-appointed Federal Judge’s Illegal Immigrant Gun Ruling
On What’s On Your Mind: Cornyn’s Gun-Control Efforts Should Thwart His Leadership Dreams
On The Bill Martinez Show: Senator John Cornyn’s Gun-Control Efforts Should Tank His Leadership Dreams
On The Statewide Montana Talks Network: Discussing Biden’s Zero Tolerance Policy
On Armed American Radio: To Discuss John’s Debate on the Second Amendment at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Testimony
In Spanish: Testimony before the Ecuadorian Congress on legislation for people to carry concealed handguns
CPRC testifies in support of Tennessee’s Lifetime Order of Protection Expansion Bill.
Television Show Bias on Guns
Media Bias: Yet Another TV Police show showing a Defensive Gun Use Gone Wrong
TV show bias: Stand Your Ground Laws supposedly let you shoot anyone trespassing on your property
FBI “Most Wanted”: Pushes claim Torture to get info on Terrorist attacks generates more problems.
Media Coverage of the CPRC
CPRC in the News: Reason, The College Fix, The Tennessee Conservative, Bearing Arms (4), and More.
Defensive Gun Uses
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 29 Cases During December 2023-.
Other Testimony
Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary on Gun Control.
Selected C-SPAN Appearances
Gun Control MythsWashington Journal John Lott on Gun Violence in the U.S...
Other
While Relatively Few Democrats, Liberals, and the High Income People are Very Concerned about Crime, Blacks, Women, and Conservatives are Most Concerned
New Economist/YouGov Poll Puts Guns as Tied with Civil Rights for the 6th most Important Among USA Adults
Our New Executive Director
Guy Rivera, who Murdered NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller and Almost Murdered His Partner, was Arrested 21 Times, but Apparently was Only Sentenced Twice
Waukesha Murderer, who Drove His SUV into a Christmas Parade, was Out on a $1,000 Bail After Trying to Run Over the Mother of His Child in the Car
American’s of All Types Strongly Support Government Issued Photo IDs to Vote
Gunmen fire on crowds at a Moscow Concert Hall: At least 139 murdered
John R. Lott, Jr.President
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