Variety like wharton business school, stanford, yale but i will talk about the impressions people have about guns and crime. Normally i would show you lots of graphs but im stymied on that with a technical issue but theres a lot of issues we can talk about. So just off the top of my head what we frequently hear about is that background checks and three. 5 million dangers for him people from gun. Everybody was to try to stop criminals or other people who might be dangerous from getting a gun. The problem is simply that isnt correct. Rather than saying three. 5 Million People have been stopped but what they should actually say is that there have been three and a half million initial denials. Almost all of those are mistakes. Its one thing to stop somebody its another just because they have a name that is similar to a felon. So for example the last full annual report put out on the background check system you had 76000 initial denials. Only 48 cases referred to prosecution and they got 13
[inaudible conversation] soon agree with the people here . Im a volunteer here. [inaudible conversation] twomac i guess were having a few technical problems here but hopefully they will be taken care of soon. I hope you all who i am, my name is john lott, i am president Crime Prevention research center. Ive been an academic most of my life. Chief economist at the commission, ive had positions that in a variety of different universities Like University of chicago, stanford, yale. Im going to talk to you a little bit about some of the misimpression that people have about guns and crime. Normally im a very empirical guy. I would go and show you lots of graphs and stuff. Im a little bit stymied on that be given the technical issue we have here. But theres still a lot of issues we can go to talk about. Just off of the top of my head, a couple of the claims that we frequently hear about, one is that background checks. They go and stop about 3. 5 dangerous people from prohibiting guns. Everyb
Collection by criminal Illegal Immigrants, within hours of our reporting on that story last night, the department of Homeland Security announced it will be following the law and actively begin collecting dna and provide that information to the fbi and a crosscheck against Violent Crimes on record. Chief intelligence correspondent Katherine Herridge has the report. After your show last night, fox news received this statement from a Homeland Security official confirming that they would now comply with the law and provide samples from Illegal Immigrants to the fbi Violent Crimes database. Under the direction of the acting secretary, dhs is working closely with the department of justice on a path forward for dna collection, for the combined dna index system. This is a Major Development after fox news first profiled the three Border Agency whistleblowers, who brought the case against Homeland Security. And a government watchdog sided with the whistleblowers telling the president that custom
Collection by criminal Illegal Immigrants, within hours of our reporting on that story last night, the department of Homeland Security announced it will be following the law and actively begin collecting dna and provide that information to the fbi and a crosscheck against Violent Crimes on record. Chief intelligence correspondent Katherine Herridge has the report. After your show last night, fox news received this statement from a Homeland Security official confirming that they would now comply with the law and provide samples from Illegal Immigrants to the fbi Violent Crimes database. Under the direction of the acting secretary, dhs is working closely with the department of justice on a path forward for dna collection, for the combined dna index system. This is a Major Development after fox news first profiled the three Border Agency whistleblowers, who brought the case against Homeland Security. And a government watchdog sided with the whistleblowers telling the president that custom
Collection by criminal Illegal Immigrants, within hours of our reporting on that story last night, the department of Homeland Security announced it will be following the law and actively begin collecting dna and provide that information to the fbi and a crosscheck against Violent Crimes on record. Chief intelligence correspondent Katherine Herridge has the report. After your show last night, fox news received this statement from a Homeland Security official confirming that they would now comply with the law and provide samples from Illegal Immigrants to the fbi Violent Crimes database. Under the direction of the acting secretary, dhs is working closely with the department of justice on a path forward for dna collection, for the combined dna index system. This is a Major Development after fox news first profiled the three Border Agency whistleblowers, who brought the case against Homeland Security. And a government watchdog sided with the whistleblowers telling the president that custom