u/fishtankliveOG

I'm not trying to be a Karen but we've got this new neighbor who recently got a new Doberman. They've had an older Doberman which was professionally trained and its extremely well behaved. They keep it off leash on their front porch when they sit out there and it never runs after people and is always very friendly. It was trained as a support animal.

They recently got a new one, a young one, that is not trained. It's been a few months and we all assumed it was going to be trained but another person in the neighborhood said that they weren't sure they can afford it.

No one was really giving them any shit over the dog being off leash even though it does run around the neighborhood a lot because it's mostly a friendly dog. However, some random woman was getting off the bus and this thing SPRINTED over at her on the corner. A bunch of us were outside when it happened and saw it and this woman dropped her groceries and was weeping in fear. She didn't speak english and was terrified.

This dog is also pooping on sidewalks and in other people's yards. Their back yard is currently FULL of feces and according to someone who lives directly next door it reeks and there's a crazy amount of flies behind their house now.

Again, don't want to be a Karen and don't want to put a dog in danger but...what are the options here? We're all thinking of collectively talking to the owners because the neighborhood is pretty tight. The police HAVE been by (unrelated to anything I've described, it chased some middle school kids once) and told them that their dog NEEDS to be on a leash and he said he would do that but he hasn't.

Posting under an alt for reasons.

I've done some loose google searching and it appears that when the school is made aware of the incidents and takes no action they can be held liable for ensuring that their students are not disturbing the peace in the immediate area, according to prior cases (specifically citing a case in Seattle where students upon daily dismissal were vandalizing the local area of their school, the school was notified, and they weren't facilitating a better dismissal so the city stepped in).

So here's my qualm: this year when students are dismissed from Roosevelt daily they are menaces. In the past we've had loud yelling and fighting but it's never resulted in property damage. This year, since October, the kids are damaging property in the area. This one woman has had rocks thrown at her house, they've damaged a small statue on her lawn, some kids tore down a Portuguese flag and left it in the street, and today they came by threw PAINT on someone's car. PAINT. Roosevelt HAS been contacted and only said to tell the police in the past. The police have shown up, "looked" for the kids in question time after time and had a presence but nothing has come of it. With the paint incident, the police have said they reached out to Roosevelt but it's been a while and nothing has come of it. People in the area are getting fed up to the point where a small group of us are about to reach out to media, specifically WPRI. We have camera footage of the same-ish group of kids acting like assholes.

I'm coming here to ask because other than New Bedford Guide (which, seems to have a lot of racists and bigots that comment) there isn't another online congregated community to ask. What are everyone's thoughts?

Where is responsibility and accountability to be held when a large group of students are constantly disruptive, violent, and destructive when they get let out of school and they walk down Brock Avenue.