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The Crime Prevention Research Center first flagged the FBI’s quiet adjustment in a story that was published by RealClearInvestigations.
Jordan and Biggs are demanding all documentation and communication related to the “FBI’s process for updating” the data as well as details about actions taken by the bureau to update the public on the revision.
The bureau has until Nov. 21 to fork over that information and to arrange a staff briefing about the matter. . . .
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Crime and data expert John Lott spoke to Fox News Digital regarding how the FBI updated its violent crime stats for 2022, showing an increase in violent crimes, not a decrease.
First, Second, Fourth Amendments Endangered by Kamala Harris. John Lott warns that the Bill of Rights is on the ballot.
Carl Cannon, “RCP Election Livestream 7PM ET,” Real Clear Politics, November 5, 2024.
In a 2012 analysis of the Aurora theater massacre, Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, noted that, of the seven area theaters showing The Dark Knight Rises on that night of July 20th within a 20-minute drive of the targeted theater, six allowed permitted concealed handguns and only one prohibited them: Cinemark Theater had “no weapons” signs prominently posted.
Lott posited: “So why would a mass shooter pick a place that bans guns? The answer should be obvious … disarming law-abiding citizens leaves them as sitting ducks. Gun-free zones are a magnet for those who want to kill many people quickly. Even the most ardent gun control advocate would never put ‘Gun-Free Zone’ signs on their home. Let’s stop finally putting them elsewhere.” . . .
Biden launched the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention last year to coordinate federal efforts for a more holistic approach to the issue. While the office doesn’t make gun laws, or even enforce them, it serves as a clearinghouse for the administration’s messaging and policymaking on gun violence. . . .
Should Trump decide to keep the office, it would be at his whim—possibly refashioned as a repository for pro-gun policies or, as some gun rights advocates have suggested, an outfit to push Second Amendment expansion.
“The obvious choice is for the Trump administration to completely dismantle it,” said Devin Hughes, founder of the gun violence research outfit GVPedia.
“More likely, however, they will use the office as a platform to spread disinformation on gun violence that is favorable to the gun lobby, with someone like John Lott at its head,” Hughes said, referencing the debunked economist and Trump administration alum whose skewed crime statistics are touted by Republican lawmakers and the gun lobby.
Famed economist John Lott has published statistical breakdowns, demonstrating how calling Florida for Gore depressed panhandle voting, nearly costing Bush the state — as well as the presidency.
Crime Prevention Research Center expert John Lott noted that the FBI revised its data after the fact to show an increase in crime.
Initial data from the FBI claimed that crime dropped by 1.7% from 2021 to 2022, but that figure was changed to show a 4.5% jump in crime.
“We can see from the NCVS that there is this massive crime spike in urban areas,” Anderson said. “The press is busy reporting this 3% drop in crime from the FBI, and that’s just an estimate that is by no means exact, and they’re ignoring a 40% increase in violent crime. That’s a huge change.” . . .
Staff, “Democrats and the media tried to hide rising crime,” Deplorable Daily, November 5, 2024.
John Lott, the president and founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), was among the very first to examine AI’s possible impact on political discussions surrounding firearms and our constitutional rights.
In March 2024, Lott published his research, “Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Biases on Crime and Gun Control,” on his website (crimeresearch.org). The research asked 20 AI Chatbots “sixteen questions on crime and gun control and ranked the answers on how liberal or conservative their responses were.”
Questions included: “Does higher arrest and conviction rates and longer prison sentences deter crime?” As Lott noted, “For most conservatives, the answer to that seems obviously ‘yes.’ Those on the political left don’t believe that is the case.”
Lott concluded that most of the answers given to his questions were much more politically Left than conservative, as they tended to support yet more restrictions on our right to keep and bear arms. “Students, reporters and researchers already rely heavily on these programs to help write term papers, media reports, and research papers,” noted Lott. His concern is that the long-term reliance on these chatbots could taint the larger public and political discussions concerning gun control and our Second Amendment-protected rights. . . .
