With respect to dog-bite related fatalities, when the rates are computed by breed (fatalities per 100,000 dogs), no less than eight dog breeds had a higher rate of fatalities than the dreaded pit bull.
In order, starting with the worst:************
References, please and country of origin for the data and date of compilation of data. Anything less is a disservice to the readers.
Disservice, schmisservice.
Information regarding fatality rates for various dog breeds—and it's generally consistent—is widely disseminated, and trivially easily to locate for anyone who knows how to use a search engine.
The salient point is that if you have a Doberman Pinscher as a pet, it is more likely to kill someone than if you have a Pit Bull. The only reason Pit Bulls kill more people than Doberman Pinschers is because there are so many more Pits than Dobermans—but it is Dobermans who are more dangerous as a breed. Pit Bulls are categorically not the most dangerous dog breed as far as fatality rates—not even close.
In any event, one school of thought, as noted in the article The Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics Behind Dog Bites holds that the statistical data for dog bites by breed is not reliable.
From the same article, the writer notes:
If we applied this logic elsewhere, the argument would sound something like this (bold emphasis added):So major insurance companies like State Farm—whose profitability hinges on compiling accurate statistics in order to assess the risks related to things such as fatal dog attacks and dog bites in general—do not discriminate against the Pit Bull breed (or any other) based on their own extensive data.“Domestic, U.S. made vehicles are unsafe for the public and should be banned because there are more Dodge, Jeep, Ford, Chevy, and Lincoln crashes each year in the U.S. than Honda crashes.”—Said by nobody, ever.
Which is why State Farm Insurance, the largest insurance company who collects more data than the U.S. Government and makes policy decisions simply based on risks and underwriting, does not discriminate against this loosely defined group of breeds.
“Decisions are made on a case by case basis for those instances,” State Farm spokeswoman Heather Paul told HuffPost. “Pit bulls in particular are often misidentified when a bite incident occurs, so reliable bite statistics related to the dogs’ breed are unreliable and serve no purpose.”
Thus, forming one's impression of Pit Bulls as a "deadly breed" perhaps shouldn't be based on selective (and often inaccurate) anecdotal evidence from the Fake News Media—who have a much different agenda than the insurance companies.
The fact that insurance companies like State Farm—industry leaders whose business model depends on being well-informed regarding risk—don't set their rates based on a dog's breed speaks volumes...