Since i'm from Denver let me shed some light. Cops aren't going around like the town of Springfiled on the snake bashing day. Usually it's just some neighborhood snitch reporting one, and then you see the animal control car parked out all day just waiting to see it. Pits have been banned in Denver since i can remember. The big story out here now is the city of Aurora is about to do the same thing. But this time over half the dogs owned in the city are pits. There are huge protests, picketing, all kinds of shit to stop this ban, but people are hard headed. All them hippie people dont like em cus of the stereotype but pits are nice unless shit happens. Training, personality, even the breed plays a lot on how the dog reacts but people dont understand that. Instead of trying to fix the problem they just get rid of the dog, some bullshit but what can you do. Mad people are moving to cities outside of Denver and around the metro area so im thinking it might become a statewide ban.
Some girl got killed by a pit about 4 years back, and attacks happen so that is why people are outraged with the dog but its sad.