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
This makes sense to me.
you can't really protect your stash with a yorkie, now, can you?
It's just hard to get street cred with a weenie dog.
What happened to freedom?
How long before we see cheetahs on leashes? or bear cubs?
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...
Grizzly Adams had a bear...
And he was busted for cocaine
(Recognizing Signs of Extremism FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, December, 1999 p18)
ROTFLMAO!
Lol--reminds me of Norm McDonald's routine about mean streets for a wiener dog in a sweater :)
Certain Colombiahn drug lords supposedly had attack-jaguars trained and ready. It was more of a prestige thing than anything else.
Not so; where is the Gary Larson toon:
"I just ran into a nest of weiner dogs"
be afraid, very afraid!!
That's a powerfull cat; go over any pitbull one time with nothing left over, burp.
Traffic violations are now criminal? Would be nice if they gave specific numbers.
What about dobermans? My mom was bit by one about 12 years ago.
Couldn't this study be considered "PROFILING?"
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