Denver voters heavily favored a ballot measure Tuesday to overturn the city’s 30-year-old ban on pit bull ownership.That’s well over 100 in dog years.
Ballot Measure 2J passed by almost 30 points, 64.75% to 35.36%, according to the city’s website. The move will allow residents to own pit bulls – as long as they are microchipped and meet requirements set by Denver Animal Protection.
Critics of the ban argued that a dog’s breed alone was not a valid indicator of whether it would be violent and that the city had wasted millions on enforcement.
But the ban’s proponents said since it went into effect in 1989, the city had not seen a single pit bull-related fatality. In the five years before the ban, the city saw 20 attacks, including one that.
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