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Pit bull owners more likely to be criminals
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Posted on 11/19/2006 11:23:41 PM PST by Omega Man II

Pit bull owners more likely to be criminals

Washington

November 17, 2006 - 12:23PM

People who own vicious dogs such as pit bulls have significantly more criminal convictions - including crimes against children - than owners of licensed, gentler dogs such as beagles, American researchers report.

A study of 355 dog owners in Ohio showed that every owner of a high-risk breed known for aggression had at least one brush with the law, from traffic citations to serious criminal convictions.

And 30 per cent of people who owned an aggressive breed of dog and who also had been cited at least once for failure to register it had at least five criminal convictions or traffic citations.

This compared to one per cent of owners of low-risk, licensed dogs such as poodles, beagles or collies, the researchers reported in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

"Owners of vicious dogs who have been cited for failing to register a dog (or) failing to keep a dog confined on the premises ... are more than nine times more likely to have been convicted for a crime involving children, three times more likely to have been convicted of domestic violence ... and nearly eight times more likely to be charged with drug (crimes) than owners of low-risk licensed dogs," said Jaclyn Barnes of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre.

Barnes and colleagues used public records to check on the criminal pasts of dog owners.

They used agreed definitions of vicious dogs used in writing local ordinances. "A 'vicious dog" means a dog that, without provocation, has killed or caused serious injury to any person, has killed another dog, or belongs to a breed that is commonly known as a pit bull dog," they wrote in their report.

The definition excludes dogs used in law enforcement or dogs protecting an owner or property.

Aggressive breeds identified by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and some insurance companies include pit bulls, rottweilers, akitas and chows.

The most frequent low-risk breeds seen in the study included terriers, beagles, collies and poodles.

Reuters


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: bsl; pitbull; pitbulls; rdo; surprisex3; thanxcaptainobvious; wellgolly
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1 posted on 11/19/2006 11:23:43 PM PST by Omega Man II
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To: Omega Man II

This makes sense to me.


2 posted on 11/19/2006 11:24:34 PM PST by Khepera (Do not remove by penalty of law!)
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To: Omega Man II

you can't really protect your stash with a yorkie, now, can you?


3 posted on 11/19/2006 11:26:54 PM PST by thefactor
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To: Omega Man II

It's just hard to get street cred with a weenie dog.


4 posted on 11/19/2006 11:28:29 PM PST by flying Elvis ("In...War, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst" Clausewitz.)
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To: Omega Man II
Now owning a particular canine breed is a marker of deviant behavior.

What happened to freedom?

5 posted on 11/19/2006 11:32:19 PM PST by endthematrix ("If it's not the Crusades, it's the cartoons.")
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To: flying Elvis
It's just hard to get street cred with a weenie dog.

How long before we see cheetahs on leashes? or bear cubs?

6 posted on 11/19/2006 11:33:28 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: thefactor
Does the study advocate a ban on the bad dogs or the bad people?
7 posted on 11/19/2006 11:34:38 PM PST by endthematrix ("If it's not the Crusades, it's the cartoons.")
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To: Omega Man II

A foul breed owned by a lot of foul people - imagine that. Joseph Wambaugh has written a new police novel. He describes something called "pit bull polo" played in LA. It's LOL stuff if you know how many of these dogs are four-legged filth...


8 posted on 11/19/2006 11:37:52 PM PST by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: Captainpaintball

Grizzly Adams had a bear...


9 posted on 11/19/2006 11:38:31 PM PST by endthematrix ("If it's not the Crusades, it's the cartoons.")
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To: endthematrix
Grizzly Adams had a bear...

And he was busted for cocaine

10 posted on 11/19/2006 11:46:04 PM PST by bad company ([link:www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083006J.shtml | The Path to 9/11])
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To: 185JHP
...and THOSE type of people that drive beat up cars with expensive rims.

...or THOSE type of people that have pro-gun bumper-stickers.

(Recognizing Signs of Extremism FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, December, 1999 p18)

11 posted on 11/19/2006 11:47:19 PM PST by endthematrix ("If it's not the Crusades, it's the cartoons.")
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To: bad company

ROTFLMAO!


12 posted on 11/19/2006 11:47:55 PM PST by endthematrix ("If it's not the Crusades, it's the cartoons.")
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To: flying Elvis

Lol--reminds me of Norm McDonald's routine about mean streets for a wiener dog in a sweater :)


13 posted on 11/19/2006 11:50:48 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Captainpaintball

Certain Colombiahn drug lords supposedly had attack-jaguars trained and ready. It was more of a prestige thing than anything else.


14 posted on 11/19/2006 11:51:00 PM PST by seacapn
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To: bad company
My understanding is that pit bulls are wonderful dogs if they are properly socialized, as is the case with all dogs. I think, too, that the dog on "The Little Rascals" was a pit. They are strong, and so the subhumans misbreed and mistreat them. I cringe when I read the ads for pit bulls in our local fishwrap. Funny, but I never read "a real lap dog, loves to cuddle!"
15 posted on 11/19/2006 11:51:32 PM PST by ashtanga
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To: flying Elvis

Not so; where is the Gary Larson toon:
"I just ran into a nest of weiner dogs"
be afraid, very afraid!!


16 posted on 11/19/2006 11:59:29 PM PST by Atchafalaya (When you are there thats the best)
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To: seacapn

That's a powerfull cat; go over any pitbull one time with nothing left over, burp.


17 posted on 11/20/2006 12:03:23 AM PST by Atchafalaya (When you are there thats the best)
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To: Omega Man II

Traffic violations are now criminal? Would be nice if they gave specific numbers.


18 posted on 11/20/2006 12:04:12 AM PST by TheLion
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To: Omega Man II
Pit bull owners more likely to be criminals

What about dobermans? My mom was bit by one about 12 years ago.

19 posted on 11/20/2006 12:05:13 AM PST by GOP_Raider (GO UTES!!)
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To: Omega Man II

Couldn't this study be considered "PROFILING?"


20 posted on 11/20/2006 12:05:46 AM PST by ThomasBurn
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