John R. Lott Jr. is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. Until January, he was the senior adviser for research and statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal ...
President Donald Trump has cast a spotlight on crime in several cities across the United States.Washington, D.C., was the first target when, in early August, Trump deployed National Guard troops to ...
President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C. continues a decades-long American story: Data says crime is going down, even as many Americans feel like it’s spiraling out-of-control.