J6ers may be the most law-abiding group of inmates ever released from prison. Where are the criminology professors?
Guest post by Roger Roots
Recently there have been many published statements in mainstream (meaning pro-Democrat) news outlets seeking to paint the January 6 community as especially violent, thuggish or undeserving of compensation for their years of abuse by the Department of Justice.
On March 31, 2026 the New York Times Editorial Board published an opinion piece entitled “The People Trump Pardoned are on a Crime Spree.” The essay was overloaded with smears against former January 6 defendants, saying “at least twelve” (of 1,583) J6ers have been “charged” with new crimes since being pardoned. This includes protest-related scuffling, the alleged vandalism by Jake Lang, a violation of a family court order, and an alleged act of resisting arrest. A very tiny handful of pardoned J6ers have been arrested for serious crimes such as burglary or sexual assault.
That’s an arrest rate of 7.5 TENTHS OF ONE PERCENT (0.75%) per year (actually 15 months) for J6ers. This is several times lower than the arrest rate of average Americans. (Roughly 2–3% of Americans are arrested each year.) And arrestees everywhere tend to be disproportionately male (as are J6ers). Almost FOUR percent of adult MALES are arrested each year.
This means that pardoned J6ers are far more law-abiding than the general population. And this law-abidingness becomes even more startling when one compares released J6ers to other released prisoners. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, roughly 43% of released American prisoners are re-arrested for new crimes within the first year. Over SIXTY percent of released prisoners are rearrested within 3 years. The average American ex-convict is over 53 times more likely to be arrested than the average pardoned J6er!!
Pardoned J6 prisoners may be the most law abiding cohort of inmates ever released from federal prison.
What about the four thousand federal prisoners released by President Joe Biden?
Lost in this discussion is the fact that President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of some four thousand prisoners in December 2024. And it turns out that a number of the Biden-commuted prisoners have been rearrested—although no news outlet appears to be investigating this (or even interested in it).
A Dothan, Alabama man named Willie Frank Peterson was arrested just two months after former President Joe Biden commuted his drug sentence, for new felony charges including possessing cocaine, hydrocodone, marijuana, and illegally possessing firearms.
A man named Khyre Holbert pled guilty to shooting up the Old Market area in Omaha, Nebraska, and is now back in prison. Holbert’s gun was allegedly linked to other violent crimes. Dequan Willard was rearrested for violating the conditions of supervised release shortly after Biden’s commutation.
Note that there is no systematic, politicized effort to track Biden’s clemencies as there is with Trump’s J6 pardons; so no one knows the true extent of recidivism among the inmates released by Biden.
Or consider the 13,316 federal inmates who were released to home confinement nationwide under the CARES Act during the 2020 COVID-19 panic. Significantly, these were strictly vetted, pre-screened, mostly senior, inmates deemed medically vulnerable and low risk between March 2020 and June 2023. The media reported that “a small fraction” of those released inmates, 521, were re-arrested and returned to prison for unspecified violations. Twenty-two were arrested for new crimes.
The ACLU, the Vera Institute, Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), Forbes, and Reason and Senator Cory Booker all praised these early releases as a huge success. The Biden Administration released a 2024 report extolling the low recidivism rate (just 4.6% rearrested; 22 for new crimes by 2024 alone) of the CARES Act early releases.
But J6ers have a rate of rearrest that is ONE SIXTH of that rate.
The incredible law-abidingness of pardoned J6ers begs the question of the legitimacy of the J6 prosecutions themselves. While the left likes to paint J6ers as fundamentally criminal, the data show that J6ers are overwhelmingly hardworking and law abiding. This further illustrates that J6ers were mostly innocent Americans, subjected to cruel, weaponized prosecutions under the Biden Justice Department.
Where are the criminology professors?
The next time we hold an Insurrection, we should do it right.
The Left doesn't even know the definition!
The Dims want everyone to believe the "election deniers" came to overthrow the government UNARMED!
I've heard some people lie, and say it was "an armed insurrection"!
Nancy Pelosi – buy my book:
"Jan.6th, how I f America!"
Don't need a Criminology Professor to understand that the J6er's were predominately Law Abiders who fought for truth and justice. That's why they're still law abiding, even as prison inmates.
We're about to learn the truth concerning January 6th….
"About To" ……."About To" Too is All BS until It Happens. Are You Holding Your Breath???
I AM ABOUT TO BE 24 YRS OLD DATE 12 SUPERMODELS MARRY THE PERFECT WIFE HAVE 3 BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN AND LIVE IN A MELANIN DIMINISHED WORLD WITH ZERO CRIME { I KNOW IT IS REDUNDANT BUT ITS JUST WORTH REPEATING} .
ALL OF WHICH IS MORE LIKELY THAN J6 PERSECUTORS INDICATED.ARRESTED OR TRIED FOR THE WAR CRIMES THEY COMMITTED BEFORE I DIE…. AND I PLAN TO LIVE FOREVER.
censors got me i'll just say it in a "G" rating HYPOCRITES
no free speech on this patform
DC IS A TROLL SO BE ADVISED DC IS NOT PRO AMERICA.
not as bad as twitter
Indeed, where are the criminology professors? (Likely too weak or too "chicken" to speak up and out for what is right.)
That's because they want to keep their cushy jobs that their fat bottoms are glued to.
Let's be honest. The J6 prisoners did not commit a crime. The Pelosi Democrats committed the crime. The First Amendment says that the government is forbidden from prohibiting the people the right to assemble AND petition the government for a redress of grievances, and the people had a valid grievance. The Democrats created false law to deprive these citizens of that right and criminalized their attendance at it. Look up federal law in title 18, section 242, and see what it says about that.
Correct, it was an entrapment scheme designed to goad enthusiastic Trump supporters into doing something they could frame them for and by extention make Trump look like a criminal conspirator. It almost succeeded, and we still haven't seen justice. When those that orchestrated this are hung, then we will have justice.
They came dangerously close to stealing our country. The J6 patriots were proven 100% correct.
The politicians, lawyers and money behind the coup need to be tried convicted and punished. Punished so severely that people will flinch when they hear those names for the next Century or two.
Not only did Nancy Pelosi's henchmen remove the no trespassing signs, they manually had to OPEN the doors to the Capitol to further incriminate peaceful protesters. When that didn't work, they shot them with rubber bullets causing a stampede. They then murdered in cold blood, Ashley and Rosanne. Unbelievable EVIL by Nasty Pelosi. When's that WITCH going to be tried for her crimes?
Not only did Nancy Pelosi's henchmen remove the no trespassing signs, they manually had to OPEN the doors to the Capitol to further incriminate peaceful protesters. When that didn't work, they shot them with rubber bullets causing a stampede. They then murdered in cold blood, Ashley and Rosanne. Unbelievable EVIL by Nasty Pelosi. When's that WITCH going to be tried for her crimes?
Globalists hate American Patriots. Those Globalists should all be in prison…..or hung!
PRISON IS A HORRIBLE THING. JUST ASK THE POWS. THEY SHOULD ALL BE IN PRISON AND HELD UNTIL WE DECIDE TO CHARGE THEM AND THEN
DISPOSEDRECYCLED SLOWLY AND RESPONSIBLY.
They deserve reparations.
THEY DESERVE JUSTICE AND EVEN THEN IT WILL ONLY BE ENOUGH WHEN THE LAST PRISONER SAYS THEY ARE SATISFIED. A REAL PRESIDENT WOULD ENSURE THAT STARTED ON DAY ONE OF HIS PRESIDENCY. TO DATE MY PRESIDENT I VOTED FOR 3 TIMES HAS NOT DONE ENOUGH TO AVENGE OUR REPUBLIC FROM THE ENEMIES WITH IN.
and We Deserve Justice
Yes, but they ARE suckers. People on the streets the night before were calling out Ray Epps as a Fed, yet that crowd, led by The Proud Boys were drawn right in to the trap…led by people like Ray Eppes with bullhorns inciting them to enter the capitol.
Clear thinking people would have turned and left the moment the flash bangs and soft shrapnel grenades started landing. If they really meant business they wouldn't have left their weapons in Virginia and there would have been casualties strewn all over the place. Instead they came unarmed and allowed agitators to not only represent them, but also coerce them in to breaching barricades and entering the building. That was stupid…and stupidity can be illegal.
YOU WERENT THERE AND HAVE NO RIGHT TO DEEM THESE PATRIOTS SUCKERS. NONE OF US KNEW THEN WHAT WE KNOW TODAY SO BTFO MOUTH. TALK LIKE THAT IN FRONT OF A GROWN MAN AND YOU WOULD BE ON YOUR KNEES IN A JAIL CELL AFTER BEING PROPERLY TAUGHT HUMILITY YOU COWARD.
THEY ALL MADE MISTAKES AND EVERYTHING COULD BE DIFFERENT…THINGS SURE ARE DIFFERENT NOW.
They were protesting the election criminals. So the criminals put them in prison.
Never forget this isn't about some protest.
It's about the stolen election.
AND THE CRIMINALS CURRENTLY OBSTRUCT PROSECUTION OF THOSE THAT PERSECUTED OUR AMERICAN CITIZENS…WE ARE AT WAR HERE.
and Trump has done nothing about the TRAITORS who put them in prison. Who tortured them in prison, denied medical care, contact with family, beat them for speaking out, denied contact with lawyers. Their jailers should be hung for treason for the treatment the dished out
They went to war against us. 1,500 is a lot of people ATTACKED WITH DEADLY FORCE and FALSELY IMPRISONED. That is a war-sized crime.
War.
IN ORDER FOR THEM TO BE HELD WITH OUT CHARGES THEY WERE DEEMED INSURGENTS UNDER THE PATRIOT ACT THUS CRIMINALS IN AN ACT OF ATTEMPTED OVER THROW OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT { TREASON }. THIS MAKES THEM WAR CRIMINALS….ACCORDING TO THE PATRIOT ACT,
EVEN UNDER THOSE RIDICULOUS CONDITIONS AS BEING DEEMED WAR CRIMINALS THUS POW'S THEY WERE TORTURED AND KILLED AND DENIED BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER THE GENEVA CONVENTION.
ZERO EFFORT HAS BEEN UNDERTAKEN TO ARREST EVEN THE HEAD OF THE JAIL THAT SANCTIONED PUTTING BOUNTIES AND REWARDING CRIMINAL TREATMENT OF OUR CITIZENS AT THE HANDS OF SICK AND DEMONIC JAIL PERSONNEL.
WE PATRIOTS ELECTED TRUMP AND KEPT HIM FROM PRISON. HE OWES US THE RETRIBUTION OF OUR POW'S TO INCLUDE TINA PETERS AND THEN OUR CITIZENS STOLEN RIGHTS IN THAT ORDER.
The purpose of the Patriot Act was to turn US citizens into terrorists with the flick of a pen.
And here we are.
EVEN IF ONE WERE TO BUY INTO THE KNEE JERK REACTION OF 911 THESE SCUMS RENEWED IT. THE ACTUAL TRAITOR/S RENEWED IT.
They may have been the most law-abiding citizens, but it didn't stop the prison guards from abusing them.
THE GENEVA CONVENTION OF PRISONER RIGHTS WAS VIOLATED ON OUR OWN SOIL BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT AND NO ONE HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE BY EITHER PARTY.
DID YOU ALSO KNOW THAT TEAR GAS IS IN VIOLATION OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION?
IS AGAINST THE LAWS OF WAR AS OUTLINED AND ENACTED BY AMERICA AND ITS ALLIES THESE PACTS ARE SIGNED AND AGREED TO BY AMERICA TO USE THESE TACTICS ON PRISONERS OR CITIZENS OF COUNTRIES WE INVADE IN TIMES OF WAR…..
YET TO DATE…… NO ONE HAS BEEN CHARGED ARRESTED OR PROSECUTED IN AMERICA.
THAT IS AMERICA…… NOT DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN BUT ALL PARTIES IN OUR GOVERNMENT CHARGED WITH PROTECTING ITS CITIZENS FROM ENEMIES BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
WE ARE AT WAR UNLESS ONE OF YOU CAN TELL ME WHY….. J6 WAS NOT A DECLARATION OF WAR.
The rule of law has fallen in Western Civilization.
Where are the criminology professors?
In the Democrat's/Deep State's pockets.
I watched it live on the TV. I know exactly what Biden, the Democrats and the Deep State did. Lock them up because they are all flight risks. Start grabbing some of those activist Judges that have been ignoring the law of the land too.
The correct term is just "Joe Biden". Not "President Joe Biden". Joe was never actually elected President.
When referring to things done during his residency, the correct term is "… Joe Biden's handlers commuted the sentences…"
Or "Joe Biden's autopen" is also acceptable.
YOUR WORDS ANNOYED ME {AT FIRST} BUT YOU ARE CORRECT. JUST LIKE THE INVADERS ARE NOT IMMIGRANTS….WORDS MATTER AND CALLING HIM PRESIDENT IS JUST WRONG.
Insurrection my as… foot! there wasn't so much as a pitch fork or a vat of TAR! And as far as I'm concerned I'd of loved to bring the feathers!!
I still have yet to see the video and/or hear the audio of authorities telling the protesters that their outing had been declared an illegal assembly and that they were ordered to disperse.
Until then, it remains clear that Capitol Police fired concussive grenades and rubber bullets at peaceful protestors. In other words, they incited a riot.
Shauni Rae Kerkhoff, the J6 pipe bomber, shot protesters IN THE FACE with non-lethal rounds on J6.
Their actions were criminal.
J6 was a setup. The crowd would have been 10 times as large, if a great many people didn't smell a trap.
The minute you stepped off the bus you could feel the evil. It was a set up, no doubt about it! Nothing was as it usually was when there for a protest or rally!
Maybe because they aren't criminals but patriot heroes?
Love these abused mistreated patriot I hope they all can sue for millions!
The government can never justify what happened to the Jan 6ers. The citizens have the right to an armed rebellion when the government steals our vote. There can be no doubt that a group of government officials actively defrauded the citizens of their vote.
They were set up by the traitors that have been torturing Trump and his family for ten years. DC is a communist snake pit. Pelosi. McConnell and Pence were just a few. If anything. they may be the most naive people in the country. I was invited by a group but said no. I knew it was enemy territory and after what they had done with COVID and framing Trump. I was more right than even I knew. They destroyed peoples lives for being gullible. They should be made whole. They should also get a chunk of Mafia Pelosi's money as well as McConnell.
Most were weaponized FBI agents. Anyway the 2020 election was completely fake. Trump Won in 2020.
Most of the so called J 6 folks never had any problems with the law until they were attacked and charged by the democrats
1,576 J-6ers rounded up, persecuted, jailed but No Antifa from MN or NJ violent demonstrations over Legal ICE Deportations of Felonious/Illegal Invasion Migrants ???
Antifa declared Domestic Terrorists, Funded by NWO Oligarchs like Soros for Decades …… zzzzzzz
democRats Allowed to Continue, by Repub-rinoRats, their Bolshevik sElection Coup of 2020.
Border Patrol Bonvino "Retired", Mass Domestic Apprehensions of Illegals not allowed to Happen, and democRats will eventually make Them "Legal" Voters.
MY PRESIDENT IS REPUBLICAN AND THE REPUBLICANS ALLOWED ALL OF THIS TO HAPPEN WITH ZERO RESPONSE OR ACCOUNTABILITY.. MY PRESIDENT HAS DONE NOTHING TO ADDRESS IMMIGRATION/INVASION-2020 THEFT-AUTO PARDONS-COVID SCAMDEMIC-J6-TINA PETERS……REALLY ANYTHING WE VOTED HIM INTO OFFICE FOR.
ALL VICTIMS of law enforcement's utter HATRED of those who attempt to exercise their Constitutional RIGHTS. BTW, what has Ol' Krosseyed kash&kurry patel about ridding the FBI of those who viciously attacked, imprisoned in the secret dungeons operated by the FBI and Homeland Security, held WITHOUT access to counsel, and tortured during their confinement. HINT, the answer IS NOTHING!
And these MAGE PATRIOTS would fall into the SAME category as those citizens who have been, and continue to be silenced by the FBI and/or state and local police for attempting to speak at school board or city council meetings.
ONLY the thickest of skulls, i.e. bootlickers, would approve of the badge wearing domestic terrorists silencing those who attempt to exercise their Constitutional RIGHTS,
I can't remember anyone saying anything about the CPD illegally firing on the peaceful protesters.
THE LAW SAYS: There must be three(3) loud audible warnings, to leave the Capitol grounds.
They have the PA system to do just that.
No warning was ever given!
They just open-fire on US citizens!
No different than the FBI's MASSACRE of the INNOCENTS at Mt. Carmel, or their involvement in the Oklahoma City bombimg, or their and the ATF's "Fast and Furious" gun running operation, which led to what a believe, was the live fire exercise at the Las Vegas music, which I believe was a continuation of the "Fast and Furious gun-running operation, then we have the cold blooded MURDERS of Randy Weaver's children and dog, and the assassination of Mr. Lavoy Finicum, NO, the hands of the FBI are dripping with the blood of the HUNDREDS of law abiding citizens that they have taken a dislike to.
Brian Terry was not available for comment!
There's a reason Nancy Pelosi refused President Trump's request to have the National Guards there that day. Nancy and Liz and a few others including the DC cops had already made their own plans for the day.
"Law-abidingness" is not a word. Come on, bro.
Probably because they are innocent
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