” . . .Preliminary “final” 2017 dog attack data from the U.S. and Canada suggests some good news, in that “only” 989 dogs participated in killing or disfiguring humans, down from the 2016 record 1,075.
But the bad news is that those 989 dogs killed 57 people, 11 more than the previous record of 46 who were killed in 2015.
Pit bulls killed 40 people in 2017, 39 in the U.S. and one in Canada, a total of 12 more people than were killed by pit bulls in 2016 and five more than the previous record of 34 killed in 2015.”
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I read the article you posted on the baby killed by the German Shepherd. This was an horrible, and most likely preventable, tragedy. As are so many.
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The site you took from which you took your figures appears to be using CDC data, which has not collected dogbite data by breed since 1998, and is most effective for historical use.
This is the reason I and others use the data collected by Merritt Clifton, who collects and collates by news articles over the last 35 years, at the website above.
For the record, I believe and use his (Clifton’s) statistics as reference information on Pit-bull type dogs. I do understand that he is NOT a conservative, especially on Second Amendment matters.
He is, however, hated with a passion and receives an enormous amount of vitriol - up to and including death threats - by pit bull advocates for his views, and has for at least twenty years.
I have yet to find anyone who can prove his statistics false or his methodology any more flawed than that of the insurance industry - who have apparently reached the same conclusions of risk re these dogs.
Why do you suppose that is?
They had a system in place to gather that data. Why was it scrapped?
A bureaucracy never shrinks or pulls back a tentacle without a great deal of pressure...