09-11-2023, 02:18 PM
FBI has been lying for years about mass shootings being stopped by armed citizens, the CPRC found.
Recent polling indicates that an increasing number of Americans view the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with distrust and disfavor. The results of a national survey conducted in August by Rasmussen Reports found that a majority of voters asked (53%) felt that the agency was not impartial and agreed with the drastic statement that a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI are using the FBI as Joe Bidens personal Gestapo.
The FBIs credibility isnt likely to be bolstered by a new report from Dr. John Lotts Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). The report, Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2021, indicates that the FBI massively undercounted cases of defensive firearm use in the United States by ordinary citizens by an order of more than ten The FBI reported that armed citizens thwarted 4.4% of active shooter incidents, while the CPRC found 34.4%.
Active shooter incidents are defined by the FBI as incidents in which an individual actively kills or attempts to kill people in a populated, public area, but it does not include incidents the agency deems related to other criminal activity, such as a robbery or fighting over drug turf.
The CPRC identified a total of 360 active shooter incidents in the period between 2014 and 2021 and found that an armed citizen stopped 124 of those attacks. (The report adds that there were another 24 cases where armed civilians stopped armed attacks, but the suspect didnt fire his gun. Those cases are excluded from our calculations, though it could be argued that a civilian also stopped what likely could have been an active shooting event.) By comparison, the FBI reports that armed citizens only stopped 11 of the 252 active shooter incidents it identified for the period 2014-2021.
The CPRC attributes the undercount to a couple of factors, misclassified shootings and overlooked incidents. Misclassified shootings included those in which the FBI failed to properly account for cases where the shooter fled the scene upon being confronted by a person lawfully carrying a firearm, mistakenly classified armed civilians as security professionals, or apparently ignored evidence of armed civilian engagement. The second factor refers to instances where the FBI missed 25 incidents identified by CPRC where what would likely have been a mass public shooting was thwarted by armed civilians, with another 83 active shooting incidents that they missed.
An additional shortcoming in the FBIs analysis is that the agency doesnt identify whether an incident occurred in a gun-free zone in which it was impossible for law-abiding and otherwise armed civilians to respond effectively. The CPRC estimates that about half of these attacks occur where guns are banned, which puts the overall armed civilian engagement percentages in a more accurate context. After taking the location (gun-free zone or not) into account, the report concludes that between 2014 and 2021, more than half (51%) of the active shooter incidents in places that allow people to legally carry were stopped by an armed citizen. Even more significantly, for 2021 alone that percentage was 58%. (Of course, given the limits of the underlying FBI definition, these numbers dont represent all cases where a person legally carrying a handgun stopped a shooting event or other crime.)
The data differences appear to be a consistent problem with the FBIs reporting on active shooter incidents.
In January 2021, in a paper written while he was a Senior Advisor for Research and Statistics at the U.S. Department of Justices Office of Legal Policy, Dr. Lott revealed that the FBIs active shooter incident reports from 2014 onwards contained major mistakes: all five reports so far issued were found to have serious errors.
Recent polling indicates that an increasing number of Americans view the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with distrust and disfavor. The results of a national survey conducted in August by Rasmussen Reports found that a majority of voters asked (53%) felt that the agency was not impartial and agreed with the drastic statement that a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI are using the FBI as Joe Bidens personal Gestapo.
The FBIs credibility isnt likely to be bolstered by a new report from Dr. John Lotts Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). The report, Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2021, indicates that the FBI massively undercounted cases of defensive firearm use in the United States by ordinary citizens by an order of more than ten The FBI reported that armed citizens thwarted 4.4% of active shooter incidents, while the CPRC found 34.4%.
Active shooter incidents are defined by the FBI as incidents in which an individual actively kills or attempts to kill people in a populated, public area, but it does not include incidents the agency deems related to other criminal activity, such as a robbery or fighting over drug turf.
The CPRC identified a total of 360 active shooter incidents in the period between 2014 and 2021 and found that an armed citizen stopped 124 of those attacks. (The report adds that there were another 24 cases where armed civilians stopped armed attacks, but the suspect didnt fire his gun. Those cases are excluded from our calculations, though it could be argued that a civilian also stopped what likely could have been an active shooting event.) By comparison, the FBI reports that armed citizens only stopped 11 of the 252 active shooter incidents it identified for the period 2014-2021.
The CPRC attributes the undercount to a couple of factors, misclassified shootings and overlooked incidents. Misclassified shootings included those in which the FBI failed to properly account for cases where the shooter fled the scene upon being confronted by a person lawfully carrying a firearm, mistakenly classified armed civilians as security professionals, or apparently ignored evidence of armed civilian engagement. The second factor refers to instances where the FBI missed 25 incidents identified by CPRC where what would likely have been a mass public shooting was thwarted by armed civilians, with another 83 active shooting incidents that they missed.
An additional shortcoming in the FBIs analysis is that the agency doesnt identify whether an incident occurred in a gun-free zone in which it was impossible for law-abiding and otherwise armed civilians to respond effectively. The CPRC estimates that about half of these attacks occur where guns are banned, which puts the overall armed civilian engagement percentages in a more accurate context. After taking the location (gun-free zone or not) into account, the report concludes that between 2014 and 2021, more than half (51%) of the active shooter incidents in places that allow people to legally carry were stopped by an armed citizen. Even more significantly, for 2021 alone that percentage was 58%. (Of course, given the limits of the underlying FBI definition, these numbers dont represent all cases where a person legally carrying a handgun stopped a shooting event or other crime.)
The data differences appear to be a consistent problem with the FBIs reporting on active shooter incidents.
In January 2021, in a paper written while he was a Senior Advisor for Research and Statistics at the U.S. Department of Justices Office of Legal Policy, Dr. Lott revealed that the FBIs active shooter incident reports from 2014 onwards contained major mistakes: all five reports so far issued were found to have serious errors.
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