From cnn.com’s guest commentator:
Because violence breeds violence, dogfighting endangers communities wherever it occurs. Aside from hurting animals, it nurtures a violent mind-set that makes it easier for people to brutalize other people. The results of a recent Chicago Police Department study bear this out: Of those arrested for animal crimes, including dogfighting, 65 percent had past arrests for battery.
The full commentary is here.
-Bridget Crawford
A SC organization, Healing Species, uses rescued dogs to teach children compassion. The goal is to prevent the development of a “violent mind-set.” The program has been very successful in SC. I think that the founder, Cheri Thompson, is a SC law grad.
Does the author really think those statistics support the proposition for which they are cited? Correlation now means causation?
I don’t think that is an accurate summation of the full commentary.
It was not intended to be a summation of the full commentary.
The full commentary relies heavily (but not exclusively) on a misuse of statistics to justify imposing a general duty on society to combat dogfighting. Ms. Crawford appears to have endorsed that misuse by reposting the excerpt here. Do you disagree?
Your comment on the Larry Craig post suggests you are a troll, so I will not be replying further.