Showing posts with label Elgin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elgin. Show all posts
Jun 06, 2017 Elgin Rescue Pit Attacks other Dogs in Fur Mommy's Home
Elgin - Elgin Emily is a virtuous woman. We know this because she has 5 rescues. But one, a pit bull, recently began attacking her dog other dogs, and the pit got hurt. So she went on a community forum to dump it. What follows is a battle of the sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, hypocrtical fur mommies blaming and condemning each other. And none of them have the slightest clue why pittie poo is attacking (DNA).
April 24, 2017 Elgin Bullmastiff Killed a Leashed Malti Poo on the Street
Elgin - "I am looking for anyone in the Hendee St. and Harding St. area that have had issues with a bull mastiff dog. My 7 lb. Yorkie Poo was attacked and killed by this dog while being walked on a leash by my mom on 3/26/17. I am aware of someone else that was in court on Friday April 21st in Elgin. Looking to speak to this person. Thank you.
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Feb 13, 2016 Roodhouse Bullmastiff Kills Small Dog in His Own Yard
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Apr 04, 2017 Elgin Pit bull Attacked & Killed Small Dog
Elgin - another unreported pit bull attack in elgin.
Elgin residents are well-aware of their persistent dangerous dog problem. This is really a problem that can be documented back decades, and still the city has done nothing about it.
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All documented Elgin attacks - there are a lot of them
Elgin residents are well-aware of their persistent dangerous dog problem. This is really a problem that can be documented back decades, and still the city has done nothing about it.
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All documented Elgin attacks - there are a lot of them
Apr 04, 2016 Elgin Pit Bull Killed a Sweet Dog-Owner Cited
Elgin - In a horrific attack, a man was walking his son’s 7-year old Jack Russell terrier, Buddy, when a pit bull attacked and dragged Buddy off. The man got into his truck to look for the pit bull and Buddy and found the pit bull standing over Buddy’s lifeless body.
Elgin Animal Control officers followed up on the incident and through canvassing the neighborhood was able to identify the pit bull mix dog and its owner, a resident on the 300 block of Waverly Court, police said.
Animal control issued the 19-year-old owner with citations for dog at large, biting and attacking, and vicious behavior. An adjudication hearing was set for May 4.
Elgin passed the ordinance in 2010 creating the designation of dangerous dog when a hearing officer or court at the request of the police department conducts an evidentiary hearing on the temperament of a dog.
To date, 83 dogs have been designated as dangerous dogs and 13 as vicious, or dogs that have bitten a person or another dog, according to city records.
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Mar 28, 2016 Elgin Fatal Pit Bull Attack on Buddy Update
Mar 25, 2016 Elgin Pit Bull Kills Leashed Jack Russell Terrier Unprovoked
2015 Elgin's Pit Bulls Still Attacking; Press Not Covering Them
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Animal control issued the 19-year-old owner with citations for dog at large, biting and attacking, and vicious behavior. An adjudication hearing was set for May 4.
Elgin passed the ordinance in 2010 creating the designation of dangerous dog when a hearing officer or court at the request of the police department conducts an evidentiary hearing on the temperament of a dog.
To date, 83 dogs have been designated as dangerous dogs and 13 as vicious, or dogs that have bitten a person or another dog, according to city records.
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Elgin Courrier News
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Mar 28, 2016 Elgin Fatal Pit Bull Attack on Buddy Update
Mar 25, 2016 Elgin Pit Bull Kills Leashed Jack Russell Terrier Unprovoked
2015 Elgin's Pit Bulls Still Attacking; Press Not Covering Them
Mar 28, 2016 Elgin Fatal Pit Bull Attack on Buddy Update
Elgin - An update on the fatal attack on a Jack Russell terrier by a pit bull includes an interview with the heartbroken owners and names the little victim. His name was Buddy. He was a rescue dog who had been found by the side of the road, hit by a car. He lived 7 years. He could have lived to 20. He loved people and loved to be held and played with.
The Courier-News also had the guts to name the medium sized dog with clipped ears as a pit bull - half way down the article.
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| RIP Buddy. Elgin Lost you, but keeps the killer pit bull |
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Mar 25, 2016 Elgin Pit Bull Kills Leashed Jack Russell Terrier Unprovoked
Elgin - A brown medium sized pit bull with cropped ears and wearing a brown collar came out of nowhere and attacked and killed a leashed Jack Russell Terrier unprovoked and off property.
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| RIP Sweet Buddy |
The Courier-News has cowardly chosen not to call the pit bull a pit bull and instead called the dog a “medium-size brown dog with clipped ears.” This is in service to fighting dog enthusiasts who can’t stop fighting dogs from killing our dogs, so they dictate to news outlets that they must not name pit bulls in the hope that the general public will swallow the lie that any medium sized dog will just rush up and kill a Jack Russell Terrier. They are hoping the community will forget that pit bulls are the only medium sized dog with cropped ears that will likely kill a Jack Russell Terrier.
The Courier-News didn’t bother to report the details of the attack, how the Jack screamed, how the owner was traumatized and devastated by watching this extreme violence.
Do not forget that news outlets reported on the terrible problem Elgin has had with dangerous and killer pit bulls since 2002. Enough of these attacks were reported in the news to keep the public aware of the danger until an exceptionally good investigative report came out in 2012 that very unfavorably compared Elgin’s dog issues with Aurora and Naperville. After that, reporting on Elgin pit bull attacks virtually stopped.
Did the pit bull attacks stop? No. They are just not reported. And now if they are reported, they’ll be reported as a medium-sized dog. The public has no idea if the pit bull problem is getting better or worse or if there are more or fewer attacks in their community because of this combination of not reporting and hiding the breed when pit bulls are involved.
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2015 Elgin's Pit Bulls Still Attacking; Media Not Covering Them
Elgin has had documented problems with pit bulls and dangerous dogs attacking since at least 2002. There were at least three attempts to pass a pit bull ban to solve this problem. But each attempt was thwarted, the last by interference and intimidation by Best Friends Animal Society in 2010.
Instead, Elgin passed breed neutral ordinances that relied on extremely high fines and restrictions of dogs labeled dangerous or vicious. In an attempt to make their ordinance pro-active, officials have the power to deem dogs that exhibit menacing behaviors as dangerous. But, the result of not directly addressing the problem and not banning pit bulls and instead deeming dogs that bark and growl at people dangerous has created the usual absurd results.
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| Dakota attacked a neighbor's dog and was declared dangerous. His owner takes him to see the elderly as a therapy dog. Elgin is home to a chihuahua that never bit anyone that has been put on the dangerous dog list for life. Among the requirements for keeping the chihuahua is a 6 foot fence to contain it. Elgin is also home to a supposed “therapy” pit bull that is also on the dangerous dog list. The pit bull attacked another dog, but the owner believes it has been rehabilitated and is safe and appropriate to bring around the elderly. Neither of these absurd results would have come about if Elgin had recognized breed differences, banned pit bulls, and acknowledged that an aggressive chihuahua might require different restrictions than an aggressive pit bull. |
The dangerous therapy pit bull’s owner wanted to change the ordinance so that dogs could be removed from the dangerous dog list after a number of years of good behavior. Thankfully, though Elgin did modify the ordinance, only dogs that have never attacked or bitten are eligible for removal from the dangerous dog list. Now the chihuahua is off the dangerous dog list and in a year a German Shepherd that never bit or attacked can be take off if it behaves. The dangerous therapy pit bull will remain on the list. The dangerous therapy pit bull’s owner claims the therapy dog certification organization and the organization that allows her pit bull to hang out with the elderly know that the pit bull is dangerous.
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| Another pit bull will be added to the dangerous dog list after attacking these dogs and their owner |
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Jan 13, 2015 Elgin Cops Kill Pit Bull While Responding To Domestic Disturbance
Elgin - Police shot and killed a dog which charged officers when they responded Saturday to a large domestic disturbance where at least one person was also stabbed, officials said. Officers were called to the 100 block of Mallery Avenue at about 4 a.m. by a woman who said she had been punched in the mouth by a male and had cut another family member with a knife.
When police arrived, fresh blood could be seen on the front door, according to reports. Police announced their presence and went inside and were charged by the dog, a pit bull type mix, officials said. The dog bit one of the officers, who then shot the animal. Those in the home — many who were bloodied — then turned their aggression towards the officers, police said. Several officers arrived on scene, and a bloody knife was found near the front door. One person was taken to Presence Saint Joseph Hospital for treatment of his wounds, then was taken to the Elgin jail for further investigation.
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When police arrived, fresh blood could be seen on the front door, according to reports. Police announced their presence and went inside and were charged by the dog, a pit bull type mix, officials said. The dog bit one of the officers, who then shot the animal. Those in the home — many who were bloodied — then turned their aggression towards the officers, police said. Several officers arrived on scene, and a bloody knife was found near the front door. One person was taken to Presence Saint Joseph Hospital for treatment of his wounds, then was taken to the Elgin jail for further investigation.
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Sep 12, 2012 Thank you Virginia for keeping weapons grade pit bulls from coming to Elgin, Illinois
Loudoun VA - Tremain Dene Johnson, 44, of Lithonia, Ga., and Harry Ortice Puckett, 33, of Elgin, Ill., are charged with importing pet dogs into the Commonwealth of Virginia from another state without certificate of veterinary inspection, a Class 1 misdemeanor.
The men were stopped on the Dulles Greenway when an Loudoun Animal Control officer...found the men were in possession of 10 dogs that appeared to be pit bulls or pit bull mixes of varying ages and degrees of health.
“By law we can seize animals if we feel their health is a direct or immediate threat. These dogs met that criteria and we had grounds for seizing,” said Adrienne Burton, chief of Loudoun County Animal Control.
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It is Time, Elgin
Elgin has battled a pit bull problem for over a decade. And for a decade, residents of Elgin have pushed for pit bull regulation. Once again, Elgin leadership has failed to do its job protecting the safety, well-being, and quality of life of Elgin residents.
Danahy reported that Elgin had recorded an astounding 9,901 dog complaint calls between January, 2008 and June 2012. In the last two years, between June 2010 to June 2012, Elgin adjudicated 997 dog-related tickets.
Danahy compared Elgin's dog-related tickets and dog shootings with two other nearby towns.
One of the comparable cities, Aurora, is in many ways very similar to Elgin. Both cities were prosperous turn of the 20th century manufacturing towns. Both went into decline during the second half of the 20th century. Both began revitalizing their downtown areas at the turn of the 21st century. Both have experienced massive population growth in the 21st century, their racial makeup is roughly the same and per capita income is nearly equal to each other and just below the Illinois average. However, Aurora is the second largest city in Illinois with a population that is 30% larger than Elgin's.
In the two year period between June 2010, and June 2012, Elgin adjudicated 218 tickets for dog bites/dangerous behavior and the lion's share of these attacks were pit bull attacks according to Danahy. In a similar 2 year period between January 2010, and December 2011, Aurora issued only 77 tickets for dog bites/attacks.
Since 2008, Elgin police were forced to shoot 23 dogs, 20 of which were pit bulls. In the same time span 8 dogs were shot by Aurora police, 5, possibly 6, of those dogs were pit bulls. Elgin, with a 30% smaller population, wrote 65% more dog bite/aggression tickets and shot 65% more dogs.
Elgin had a full blown pit bull problem back in 2002, a full decade ago. Residents were alarmed back then by the viciousness of attacks, and wanted pit bulls banned.
From the Daily Herald, 2002:
Beside the nearly 10,000 dog related complaints, firefighters being held hostage by grippers, cops shooting dozens of pit bulls, there's also the the officer who was shot while trying to subdue a charging pit bull, the mayor that was attacked by pit bulls and assaulted by their owner days after backing down from supporting BSL, and the raid that caused 21 vicious pit bulls to berserk, attacking police and each other, which forced police to shoot six of them.
This is the situation today despite concerned Elgin citizens and pit bull mauling survivors pushing for bans for a solid decade. Pat DeMoss addressed the board in no uncertain terms:
Someone contacted Best Friend Animal Society in Utah.
You can read what happened after that in a pamphlet describing step-by-step how Best Friends Animal Society will meddle from afar in the business of any city, town, or burg that tries to address the safety issues facing them head on. Ledy VanKavage updated her pamphlet after March 2010 and it now features the city of Elgin as an example of a great success.
Even though people are being attacked, pets are being mauled and killed and pit bulls are being shot at fantastic rates in Elgin, BFAS has the gall to put the spotlight on Elgin as a shining success.
VanKavage's little pamphlet pays lip service to the idea that non-breed specific ordinances improve safety and well-being of people, pets and pit bulls. But given that Elgin is highlighted as the epitome of success, it is clear that lip service is all it is. The only criterion by which Elgin can be judged as success is "we stopped BSL." By public safety, humane and economic criteria Elgin has a pit bull crisis on its hands. It is "hit, git, and split" where BFAS is concerned. They don't have to live in the mess they perpetuated, after all.
The details about what happened in Elgin are in VanKavage's pamphlet, but here are some highlights:
The centerpiece of VanKavage's misinformation campaign is the BSL calculator that she bought from a guy whose URL is "GuerrillaEconomics." He is a statistician for hire; tell him what argument you want to make, and he'll make it with numbers. VanKavage wants to show that BSL is expensive, and he has done just that for her. For his other clients, Guerrilla Economics' John Dunham provides a "methodology and documentation" report to explain where he's getting his numbers, what assumptions he making, how he defines terms and how he arrives at his final numbers. (see Institute for Scrap Recycling Industries Economic Impact Calculator on his clients page and follow links). Any supposed calculator is worthless without this methodology and documentation report. It explains what the numbers mean; it is Dunham "showing his work" just like everybody had to do in math class. And just like a math teacher gives no credit if you don't show your work, his calculators are garbage without these reports.
VanKavage's BSL calculator doesn't come with a methodology and documentation report. Instead, VanKavage and Dunham, put together a piece called Fiscal bite & Breed Discrimination: Utilizing Scientific Advances & Economic Tools in Lobbying which only provides very vague jargon to explain how they arrived at their numbers. They created a "model (that) correlates a wide range of demographic and geographic variables" and "estimated the coefficients across a wide range of available data". Anytime jargon like this is used, if a whole lot of specifics don't immediately follow, one should suspect the writer is not just bad, he's blowing smoke. The specifics are not there.
Since we don't know how he arrived at his calculations, we don't even know what those numbers mean, and we can't argue whether they're right or wrong.* The only category of expense that can be assessed is the cost for DNA testing. Even without knowing what his numbers mean, contrary to whatever the BSL calculator shows, the cost to any city for DNA testing will be zero for two reasons.
First, courts have upheld the constitutionality of BSL and of using visual identification to implement it. Second, no DNA test that identifies pit bulls exists. The Mars test that Ledy Vankavage and friends have used for all their "proof" that no one can identify a pit bull cannot be used to identify a pit bull. In their FAQ section, the Mars company tells us that the test will give back false positive results on pit bulls. In fact, the Mars company specifically states that the test cannot identify a pit bull, and further, the test is not designed to be used on purebred dogs. According to the Mars Wisdom panel website, the company does not authorize the use of their test for enforcing BSL.
There is every indication this BSL calculator is just BS and there is no way to check it out with the information provided by John Dunham and associates. We know the people behind this calculator and all the other information in that pamphlet are lobbying against BSL. Instead of being bullied by pit bull lobbyists who will leave Elgin high and dry once they've gotten their way, Elgin should look to the over 200 communities that have implemented pit bull bans to see how they've gone about it and see what kind of success they've had.
When Miami-Dade county's pit bull ban came up for a vote after 28 years, a prominent pit bull advocate consulted the BSL calculator and boldly addressed the Miami-Dade legislature saying their pit bull ban was costing county residents over $3,000,000 a year to enforce. A county commissioner turned to the animal services director and asked him to verify the astronomical number the BSL calculator came up with for Miami-Dade expenses. The animal services director "pointed out that $3 million was more than the department's entire budget for enforcement, and that pit bulls accounted for two percent of the enforcement expenses." Miami-Dade residents voted overwhelmingly to keep the ban.
Listen to an interview with Don Bauermeister, assistant city attorney from Council Bluffs, Iowa to hear about the success of BSL in his community. He outlines the success in his city with BSL, he addresses supposed costs and legal actions, and the flurry of anger that town leaders will encounter from a minority of people. Then check out this page on Dogsbite.org for some news articles about cities happy with the successes they've had with implementing BSL. It is time to end this decade long pit bull rampage in Elgin and all of Illinois should take heed and work to regulate pit bulls for the physical and economic safety and well-being of Illinois residents.
*A methodology report dated 2012 has been added.
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...In 2004, things were just absolutely out of control. It was every other week or every week we're having some sort of pit bull attack. And people were going to the hospital. We had 29 people sent to the hospital for pit bull attacks. And in the fall of 2004 we enacted a ban and immediately thereafter we saw a lot of success with that.
You gotta convince the City Council or your county government, your board of supervisors, to do what's in the best interest of the community. It will be a very vocal minority of people that will scream and shout and raise all kinds of heck about it. And you'll hear about it from all over the country even. But you still gotta do what's right for your community. And if its protecting kids and adults and innocent victims, again, that's the role of government.Mike Danahey recently revealed the enormity of Elgin's dangerous dog problem in a Courier-News article. Danahey was prompted to look into the problem after Elgin made national news when a pit mix and a presa canario attacked and trapped firefighters inside their fire station. The dangerous dogs were throwing themselves against the glass doors of the firehouse to get to the firefighters forcing police to once again shoot dogs.
Danahy reported that Elgin had recorded an astounding 9,901 dog complaint calls between January, 2008 and June 2012. In the last two years, between June 2010 to June 2012, Elgin adjudicated 997 dog-related tickets.
Danahy compared Elgin's dog-related tickets and dog shootings with two other nearby towns.
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| Island Park, Aurora, Illinois |
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| Beautiful Festival Park, Elgin, Illinois where a 9 year old boy was attacked by two pit bulls on May 28, 2010 |
Since 2008, Elgin police were forced to shoot 23 dogs, 20 of which were pit bulls. In the same time span 8 dogs were shot by Aurora police, 5, possibly 6, of those dogs were pit bulls. Elgin, with a 30% smaller population, wrote 65% more dog bite/aggression tickets and shot 65% more dogs.
Elgin had a full blown pit bull problem back in 2002, a full decade ago. Residents were alarmed back then by the viciousness of attacks, and wanted pit bulls banned.
From the Daily Herald, 2002:
There's too many dogs that are always running loose without a leash, and my daughter walks outside and gets attacked for no reason," said Simental, who lives on the city's east side. "If you saw that dog going after her throat, you wouldn't want your kids playing outside anymore either." Such violent assaults by pit bulls and other dogs, which started occurring in Elgin's neighborhoods about two years ago, remain common despite ongoing efforts by police to stop them. In fact, such violent incidents appear to be on the rise locally, increasing with the popularity of illegal dog fighting. The city's animal control officer and police have tried to crack down on the owners of dangerous dogs by issuing tickets and fines. They have even arrested a few people they believed were training pit bulls and other dogs to fight. Still, little has proven effective. Authorities say they are now taking a second look at their approach because they've had such a difficult time curbing the problem. And for some, it couldn't happen soon enough. "Personally, I think they need to ban those kind of dogs," Elgin resident Evaughn Thornton said shortly after her puppy, Patches, was killed by a pit bull on the city's east side last month.The combination of Elgin area dogfighters providing the city with weapons grade pit bulls for over a decade and Elgin pit bull owners having been consistently unable or unwilling to sterilize and contain their pit bulls has created a pit bull problem of insane proportions.
Beside the nearly 10,000 dog related complaints, firefighters being held hostage by grippers, cops shooting dozens of pit bulls, there's also the the officer who was shot while trying to subdue a charging pit bull, the mayor that was attacked by pit bulls and assaulted by their owner days after backing down from supporting BSL, and the raid that caused 21 vicious pit bulls to berserk, attacking police and each other, which forced police to shoot six of them.
This is the situation today despite concerned Elgin citizens and pit bull mauling survivors pushing for bans for a solid decade. Pat DeMoss addressed the board in no uncertain terms:
"If you stick your head in the sand on this, it is going to come back to bite you, and I don't mean that as a pun," she told council members.The councilmen did listen to DeMoss and their many other constituents, and they passed pit bull regulation in a preliminary vote in February, 2010:
"Something needs to be done," said Councilman John Prigge, who was joined by fellow council members Robert Gilliam, Mike Warren, and Mayor Ed Schock. "This is the best plan for Elgin and its safety. It treats the cause and effect. It targets the owner and punishes them for bad behavior."Though it seemed Elgin was on its way to protecting their citizens and improving the quality of life in their city in February 2010, just one month later the ordinance was voted down in the final vote. What happened?
Someone contacted Best Friend Animal Society in Utah.
You can read what happened after that in a pamphlet describing step-by-step how Best Friends Animal Society will meddle from afar in the business of any city, town, or burg that tries to address the safety issues facing them head on. Ledy VanKavage updated her pamphlet after March 2010 and it now features the city of Elgin as an example of a great success.
Even though people are being attacked, pets are being mauled and killed and pit bulls are being shot at fantastic rates in Elgin, BFAS has the gall to put the spotlight on Elgin as a shining success.
VanKavage's little pamphlet pays lip service to the idea that non-breed specific ordinances improve safety and well-being of people, pets and pit bulls. But given that Elgin is highlighted as the epitome of success, it is clear that lip service is all it is. The only criterion by which Elgin can be judged as success is "we stopped BSL." By public safety, humane and economic criteria Elgin has a pit bull crisis on its hands. It is "hit, git, and split" where BFAS is concerned. They don't have to live in the mess they perpetuated, after all.
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| One of the two pit bulls that attacked a 9 year old boy and were shot at Festival Park in May 2010 |
- Intimidate city leaders with an email from a lawyer promising lawsuits if they move ahead with BSL.
- Intimidate by putting out a call for pit bull lovin' out-of-towners from all over the country to bombard the city council and mayor's office with "polite" emails and phone calls.
- Intimidate by paying for newspaper ads and flyers that enjoin people to contact the mayor and council members. The ads feature the BFAS logo and the city leaders' street addresses. Obviously, publishing street addresses is not for the pit bull advocates' benefit because they use emails and phone calls to contact the city. No, the logo and the street addresses are saying you are not just up against your local pit bull owners. BFAS knows exactly where you live.
- Encourage the spread of misinformation.
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| Ad put in paper to bully Elgin city council. Why publish home addresses right above the BFAS logo if you are asking people to make phone calls? |
VanKavage's BSL calculator doesn't come with a methodology and documentation report. Instead, VanKavage and Dunham, put together a piece called Fiscal bite & Breed Discrimination: Utilizing Scientific Advances & Economic Tools in Lobbying which only provides very vague jargon to explain how they arrived at their numbers. They created a "model (that) correlates a wide range of demographic and geographic variables" and "estimated the coefficients across a wide range of available data". Anytime jargon like this is used, if a whole lot of specifics don't immediately follow, one should suspect the writer is not just bad, he's blowing smoke. The specifics are not there.
Since we don't know how he arrived at his calculations, we don't even know what those numbers mean, and we can't argue whether they're right or wrong.* The only category of expense that can be assessed is the cost for DNA testing. Even without knowing what his numbers mean, contrary to whatever the BSL calculator shows, the cost to any city for DNA testing will be zero for two reasons.
First, courts have upheld the constitutionality of BSL and of using visual identification to implement it. Second, no DNA test that identifies pit bulls exists. The Mars test that Ledy Vankavage and friends have used for all their "proof" that no one can identify a pit bull cannot be used to identify a pit bull. In their FAQ section, the Mars company tells us that the test will give back false positive results on pit bulls. In fact, the Mars company specifically states that the test cannot identify a pit bull, and further, the test is not designed to be used on purebred dogs. According to the Mars Wisdom panel website, the company does not authorize the use of their test for enforcing BSL.
There is every indication this BSL calculator is just BS and there is no way to check it out with the information provided by John Dunham and associates. We know the people behind this calculator and all the other information in that pamphlet are lobbying against BSL. Instead of being bullied by pit bull lobbyists who will leave Elgin high and dry once they've gotten their way, Elgin should look to the over 200 communities that have implemented pit bull bans to see how they've gone about it and see what kind of success they've had.
When Miami-Dade county's pit bull ban came up for a vote after 28 years, a prominent pit bull advocate consulted the BSL calculator and boldly addressed the Miami-Dade legislature saying their pit bull ban was costing county residents over $3,000,000 a year to enforce. A county commissioner turned to the animal services director and asked him to verify the astronomical number the BSL calculator came up with for Miami-Dade expenses. The animal services director "pointed out that $3 million was more than the department's entire budget for enforcement, and that pit bulls accounted for two percent of the enforcement expenses." Miami-Dade residents voted overwhelmingly to keep the ban.
Listen to an interview with Don Bauermeister, assistant city attorney from Council Bluffs, Iowa to hear about the success of BSL in his community. He outlines the success in his city with BSL, he addresses supposed costs and legal actions, and the flurry of anger that town leaders will encounter from a minority of people. Then check out this page on Dogsbite.org for some news articles about cities happy with the successes they've had with implementing BSL. It is time to end this decade long pit bull rampage in Elgin and all of Illinois should take heed and work to regulate pit bulls for the physical and economic safety and well-being of Illinois residents.
*A methodology report dated 2012 has been added.
Jun 25, 2012 Elgin police shoot 23 dogs, killing 19, since 2008
Mike Danahey's report reveals that Elgin has had far more reports of dangerous dog attacks and bites than a comparable city of Aurora. Most of them were pit bulls. Elgin police have had to shoot far more dogs than Aurora, but in both cities, pit bulls are the type of dog they are forced to shoot the most.
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| (Click to make larger.) Note that one dangerous dog owner lives in an apartment building and in two other areas, home owners are hemmed in by multiple dangerous dogs within blocks of each other. Ah, the good life in Elgin! |
Elgin - Since Jan. 1, 2008, Elgin police have shot a total of 23 dogs over the course of responding to 16 separate calls. All but four of the shootings resulted in killing the dogs — significantly more than in the larger Kane County cities of Aurora or Naperville.
Theriault said that during that period, 348 tickets were issued for dogs roaming at large; 180 were citations for a dog not having a collar and tags; 141 were for not having rabies vaccinations; 111 were issued for bites or attacks; 107 were for animals displaying dangerous behavior; four were for dogs in heat roaming loose; and two were for having farm animals in town.
He also noted that between Jan. 1, 2008, and March 20, 2012, 9,901 dog complaint calls were made in Elgin, 392 of those initially coming in as dog bites.
Yes, you read that right, Elgin received 9,901 dog complaint calls in a span of 4 years and 3 months.
by Mike Danahey
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Courier News Accessed: 2012-07-02. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/68rwIVaaZ)
Jun 07, 2012 Cops Shoot Dog After One Attacks Elgin Firefighter, 2 Charge Firehouse
Elgin – Elgin Fire Capt. Tony Bialek was on the back patio of an Elgin’s fire station ... when a 90-pound female pit bull came at him.
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"... I shut the door, and the dog jumped up on the glass...” he said. “The dog was bouncing off the glass, trying to get into the station.”
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Then, another larger dog – a 130-pound Presa Canario mix – joined in, and the two dogs kept firefighters from going outside, bouncing against the firehouse door glass, trying to break it.
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“They wouldn’t let nobody out of the station,” Bialek said.
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Police came and one of the dogs attacked them, so officers shot and wounded the animal. Both animals ran back to a nearby home.
by Bernie Tafoya WBBM Newsradio
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CBS local Chicago Accessed: 2012-06-08. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/68H6KiCWL)
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Nov 23, 2011 Councilman: Almost all dogs shot by Elgin police are pit bulls
Feb 21, 2012 Elgin police kill pit bull after it attacked dog
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"... I shut the door, and the dog jumped up on the glass...” he said. “The dog was bouncing off the glass, trying to get into the station.”
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Then, another larger dog – a 130-pound Presa Canario mix – joined in, and the two dogs kept firefighters from going outside, bouncing against the firehouse door glass, trying to break it.
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“They wouldn’t let nobody out of the station,” Bialek said.
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Police came and one of the dogs attacked them, so officers shot and wounded the animal. Both animals ran back to a nearby home.
by Bernie Tafoya WBBM Newsradio
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CBS local Chicago Accessed: 2012-06-08. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/68H6KiCWL)
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Nov 23, 2011 Councilman: Almost all dogs shot by Elgin police are pit bulls
Feb 21, 2012 Elgin police kill pit bull after it attacked dog
Apr 29, 2012 Recently Adopted Pit Bull Savagely Attacks Basset Hound
The unpredictable nature of predatory pit bull attacks cannot be "caught" by temperament testing which is known to be unreliably inadequate for all breeds. Unpredictability is one of the traits that make pit bulls uniquely dangerous. This is just the latest attack by a newly adopted pit bull in the last couple months.
Elgin – Glen and Nancy Moss of Elgin bought Carson on April 1 and renamed him Smithers. Three days later, the dog mauled a neighbor’s basset hound before attacking Nancy’s leg as she tried to separate the dogs.
The basset hound required about $1,100 in veterinary costs; Nancy Moss was hospitalized for two days. Her husband said that because the dog twisted when he was biting down, it created tears that stitches could not fix.
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“Something snapped in the dog,” Glen Moss said. “This was flat-out rage.”
by Sarah Sutschek
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Northwest Herald Accessed: 2012-04-30. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/67IwPiFcq)
The comments get whacky, but true to form, the other pit bull fanatics blame the fanatic owner and the fanatic owner blames the shelter. And, like all nutter reasoning, it is two fries short of a happy meal and no one states the obvious.
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| file photo of a basset hound |
The basset hound required about $1,100 in veterinary costs; Nancy Moss was hospitalized for two days. Her husband said that because the dog twisted when he was biting down, it created tears that stitches could not fix.
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“Something snapped in the dog,” Glen Moss said. “This was flat-out rage.”
by Sarah Sutschek
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Northwest Herald Accessed: 2012-04-30. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/67IwPiFcq)
Feb 21, 2012 Elgin police kill pit bull after it attacked dog
Thanks to the work of Best Friends Animal Society and Ledy Vankavage, Christian Diaz could harrass his neighbors with his pit bull no less than 7 times before the pit was shot and killed. In the last two years 15 out of the 16 dogs shot by police in Elgin were pit bulls.
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By Tara GarcÃa Mathewson
Elgin police shot and killed a violent pit bull Monday after it attacked a neighbor’s dog
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Christian Diaz, 19, 300 block South Weston Avenue, is the owner of the attacking pit bull and was bit by his own dog trying to break up the fight, police said.
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Charges are pending against Diaz for his dog’s behavior. Diaz...has already been found liable seven times in the last two months for animal complaints, according to Theriault.
The most recent complaint against (Rocco) ... involved the same family whose dog was attacked Monday, Theriault said.
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Daily Herald Accessed: 2012-02-23. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/65febnj9K)
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Nov 23, 2011 Councilman: Almost all dogs shot by Elgin police are pit bulls
"Fifteen dogs have been shot by police in Elgin since February 2010 and 14 of them were pit bulls, according to statistics City Councilman John Prigge received from police."
Prigge originally spearheaded a push to ban new pit bulls from town in 2009. But in the face of opposition from dog enthusiasts, the proposal never made it through the city council to take effect.
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Nov 07, 2011 Elgin: Pit Bull owner prevents neighbors from receiving mail
A mail carrier was yelled at by a resident in the 300 block of Healey Street about 2 p.m. Nov. 4. The resident was mad his mail hadn’t been delivered several times because his neighbor’s pit bull was out in the front yard.
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Oct 31, 2011 ELGIN: Pit bull killed after attacks on woman, Elgin police officer
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Pit bull shot: Elgin police said they shot to death a pit bull after it first attacked a 45-year-old woman Friday and then attacked a police officer called to investigate the first attack. Police said the incident took place about 9 a.m. in the 300 block of Purdue Drive. Police said the woman was taken to Sherman Hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, and the police officer was not injured. The dog’s owner was issued nine citations relating to the incident, including not having the proper inoculations or dog tags.
Dog killed: The city’s animal control department has been asked to investigate an incident in which one person’s six dogs killed another person’s single dog. According to reports, a 31-year-old woman who lives on Barrett Street let her poodle run loose at about 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
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Aug 08, 2011 Elgin dog violence leaves a poodle and pit bull dead
Elgin police responded to three different calls Sunday concerning violent dogs. In one, a poodle died from a pit bull attack. In another, police had to shoot and kill a loose pit bull. And in the third, a dog suffered puncture wounds to its neck after being bitten by what its owners defined as a boxer/Labrador mix.
May 05, 2011 Elgin police kill two pit bulls
By Emily Jurlina
Elgin police shot and killed two pit bulls Wednesday night after the dogs exhibited “threatening behavior,” according the department.
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Accessed: 2012-01-16. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/64kVZSNUO)
Jan 13, 2011 ELGIN Police Shoot Attacking Pit Bull in Elgin Home
by Sue Olafson
ELGIN – Police in Elgin shot and killed a family pet Wednesday that turned on its owners and its own puppies and then charged at officers who responded to the home on the city’s east side, authorities said.
Six people, including a 3-year-old child, were home about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 400 block of Lincoln Avenue in Elgin, when the pit bull, named Loco, attacked its 6-day-old puppies, according to police department spokeswoman Sue Olafson.
“She was, in fact, holding the family at bay and charging anyone who came within eyesight of her,” Olafson said.
Accessed: 2011-12-06. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/63jzYmqFG)
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