Why does BSL not work?
• BSL targets a specific breed and fails to adequately address the dog-bite epidemic. It disregards both past behavior and conduct of the dog, and owner • BSL ignores 3 basic facts: • All dogs can and do inflict injury, regardless of breed • Breed alone is not a dispositive of human aggression, even in historically dog-aggressive breeds • Any dog can be trained and any breed can be bred to be aggressive • BSL creates a false sense of public security through oversimplification of the problem and under-inclusiveness in the solution • BSL, though designed to decrease the threat to public safety, may have the perverse effect of increasing the risk of serious attack • BSL is an inefficient allocation of limited financial and human resources • BSL does not differentiate between vicious and docile members of the target breed Source: Attacking the Dog-Bite Epidemic: What Breed Specific Legislation wont solve the dangerous dog dilemma, Fordham Law Review, April 2006 If you would like to join th
