Those stats are a result of shitty reporting by cops who are likely to just list any breed they can’t immediately give two fucks to confirm as a pit.

A rather famous incident quickly dropped off the radar once it turned out that the dog that attacked the victim was actually a golden retriever.

Not to mention how these stats are most of the time introduced as dogwhistles (ignore the pun) for similar mis/disinformation about black people since pits and pit mixes are frequently considered a “black people dog breed.”

A lot of the same framing too, “they’re too dangerous to be part of white society!”, “all they know is how to be violent!”, “they’re a danger to white women and children!”