What the Media Is Leaving Out of Its Reporting on Crime: John Lott
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 17 August 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with John Lott, founder and president of The Crime Prevention Research Center, to discuss his extensive research into national crime rates, arrest rates, as well as gun permit laws and how they impact crime.
“In 2022, the last year that we have the National Crime Victimization data for, while the FBI showed a 2 percent drop in violent crime, the National Crime Victimization data showed a 42 percent increase in total violent crime,” says Lott.
Why is there such a disconnect between media reporting that violent crime is down and the public’s perception that crime is surging?
“If you look at arrests for total crimes, reported and unreported, only 8 percent of violent crimes result in arrest,” says Lott.
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| 0:00.0 | Only 8% of violent crimes and only 1% of total property crimes result in arrest. |
| 0:06.7 | In this episode, I sit down with John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention |
| 0:11.6 | Research Center to discuss his extensive research into national crime rates, arrest rates, as well as gun permit laws, and how they impact crime. |
| 0:21.0 | Why is there such a disconnect between media reporting that violent crime is down |
| 0:25.3 | and the public's perception that crime is surging? The media looks at the FBI |
| 0:30.6 | reported crime data. The problem is a huge number of police departments |
| 0:34.9 | are no longer even reporting data to the FBI. |
| 0:39.1 | You have prosecutors who are refusing to prosecute violent criminals. |
| 0:43.0 | I mean, what's the risk of committing crime? |
| 0:45.0 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick. |
| 0:50.0 | John Lott, such a pleasure to have you back on American thought leaders. |
| 0:53.6 | Well, it's great to talk to you again. Thanks for me on. |
| 0:57.0 | Well, John, I've always come to you for trying to understand what's going on with crime statistics, right? |
| 1:05.0 | And one of the things we observed at the Epoch Times is that in some cases you even have |
| 1:09.2 | agencies that are telling us kind of different stories with different numbers that they're |
| 1:14.4 | publishing. So I'm trying to make sense of this. So what are you seeing right now? |
| 1:17.8 | A lot of the media is talking about crime rates going down the last couple of years. The problem is I don't think most the media |
| 1:25.8 | understands the different numbers that are being put out. You have two different sources |
| 1:30.7 | on crime numbers both from the Department of Justice. |
| 1:33.4 | One's the FBI data collecting the number of reported crimes to police. |
| 1:38.7 | And the other one is something called the National Crime Victimization |
| 1:41.7 | survey, which surveys about 240,000 people each year, |
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