The officer, who happened to be a Black male, said he believed pit bulls are dangerous dogs not meant for public exposure. According to a national survey on drug use and health, Blacks and Whites use drugs at similar rates, but the imprisonment rate of Blacks for drug charges is almost six times that of Whites. Each year, 1. Shelter advocates also say shelters are consistently overcrowded with pit bull mixes.
Young Black and Latino males were innocent 80 percent of the time. Comparatively, breed specific legislation BSL , a law or ordinance that prohibits or restricts the keeping of dogs of specific breeds, negatively impacts pit bulls, pit bull-type dogs and responsible pit bull owners.
By generalizing the behaviors of dogs that look a certain way, innocent dogs and pet owners suffer. BSL can lead to the euthanasia of innocent dogs that fit a certain look. A study from the Animal Farm Foundation showed communities with BSL do not reduce dog bites in communities or enhance public safety. Always considered a threat to everyone else. Choose what topics you want to see and how often you get our emails, and you can unsubscribe anytime. A survey of people who work with companion animals finds a mixed bag of attitudes towards pit bull type dogs, including a range of common misconceptions.
Photo by Freya Dione on Unsplash. Save to Library. He became interested in animal ethics at a very young age, when he had several companion animals ranging from a dog to a corn snake.
In college, he majored in philosophy with a focus on ethics, and became a vegetarian. In addition to working with Faunalytics, he has also volunteered at animal shelters and participated in environmental cleanups. Karol Orzechowski September 15, U. Antonia Shann September 2, Faunalytics Index — September This month's Faunalytics Index includes facts and figures about companion animal health, veterinary mental health, vegan romantic relationships, and much more.
Karol Orzechowski September 1, Monthly Once. However, even if true ownership data does not reflect the perceptions about pit bull owners illustrated here, such results are still telling in terms of cultural biases. Regardless of whether minorities are more likely to own these animals in practice, the perception that they are may still be a driving force behind the laws, coloring the decisions of legislators.
While such findings would not be sufficient to challenge the legislation legally, it would still serve to inform discussion of breed-specific laws from an moral standpoint.
However, if the relationship between pit bulls and people of color, documented here, exists in practice, it may provide these owners with a means of overturning such laws. In light of new Supreme Court precedent and strong regulations put forth by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, municipalities might prove increasingly unable to defend breed-specific bans.
Recently, breed legislation made headlines in Little Rock, Arkansas where eleven-year-old Ahmeha Simmon's service dog was taken from her backyard by authorities after being reported by a neighbor. Vernellia R. Subscribe For Monthly Updates. Subscribe for Monthly Updates.
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