New proposals to update the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act may do a modest amount of good but at a disproportionate costWhen I was a junior reporter on the London Evening Standard an alsatian badly mauled a small child in Islington. Over the next few weeks dogs seemed to be taking bites out of kids all over the place.Was it an epidemic of publicity-crazed canines trying to get their names into the Daily Beast? No, it was just that whenever young reporters rang the desk sergeant at their local nick, Sarge would... Read the original article »