The thing about pits isn't that they bite more than any other breed. It's when they DO bite, they tend to latch on. Most other breeds don't latch. This is a behavioral trait, and not any physiological trait (they don't "lock their jaws" in other words).
There exists no breed that is "known to not ever bite." Every breed has biters. But some of the bites tend to be more painful, or more risky, than others. That's it. That's the only difference between a pit-bull biting someone and any other breed biting someone. And even that can be trained out of them if the trainer starts immediately while the dog is a young puppy (in the first 6 months) and continues throughout their young life.
Most pits I've ever encountered were tolerant, if not actually friendly, and the two guard dogs whose actual jobs were to BE guard dogs, were absolutely docile and friendly once I was "formally" introduced to them by their owner. That was a former employer, and his dogs were rescues from a dogfighting operation. One was a bait dog, the other was a stud and the bait dog's best friend. You definitely didn't want to be a burglar in that building. But if you were a "friend" (formally, as part of training) of the owner, you could come and go any time of day or night, with or without the owner present, and they'd treat you like their pals.
Chihauhuas on the other hand - totally other story. I've met one, ever, that I could tolerate. The others were a bunch of yapping nippers. Nasty little things, they probably have such sour dispositions because they look like rats.
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