Is it worth it?
Looks like the city of Denver is facing yet another lawsuit on their pit bull ordinance. Three women in the area are suing them for damages that ensued by forcing them to either give up their homes and lives and move from the city or have their dogs killed.
Caveat has done a nice job of tracking the story, including having the entire complaint documentfor your viewing pleasure.
I would also like to point out the wonderful poll question by the Denver Post yesterday -- that pretty much assumes pit bulls are a problem in every response.
The Denver government is standing behind their ordinance of course. But it makes me wonder why no one is complaining about the large amount of money that is getting tied up in BSL disputes. Ontario has been dealing with a lawsuit to overturn their BSL, Toledo vs. Tellings is awaiting decision in the Ohio Supreme Court after its second appeal. There is also a court case going on in Columbus, OH, and several in San Francisco over their MSN/BSL. There is a LOT of money getting tied up in our legal system by cities trying to defend laws that have been proven NOT TO WORK.
The government finds a lot of ways to waste taxpayer dollars, and this is another perfect example. When the government looks for ways to interfere with people's lives, they are asking for problems. I can't think of a single other type of ordinance (outside of maybe no-smoking laws in restaurants and bars) that causes the same types of problems as BSL from a legal front.
At some point they're going to get it. Unfortunately, it's going to take a lot of waste of taxpayers dollars and civil employee's time before they do.
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