08-21-2010, 12:34 PM
Those are horrible stories and I sympathize. If it happened to me I would not rest until it was recognized as completely unacceptable. I would call up the police chain of command. I would contact Big Island news blog. I would write letters to the editor about how your subdivision is not safe or civilized. The truth is that the average citizen here does not accept that it's OK for dogs to trap people in their homes, kill their domestic animals, and chase people who are walking down the street into the closest pickup truck. That makes it worth a news item, especially if you put all the stories together and show the prevalence.
You get a news story about the police ignoring this and something will happen. But you have to give the police department a chance and reach out to someone at the captain level, at least, with a complaint that the officers did not take it seriously. Oh, and add the concern about retaliation into the story.
You get a news story about the police ignoring this and something will happen. But you have to give the police department a chance and reach out to someone at the captain level, at least, with a complaint that the officers did not take it seriously. Oh, and add the concern about retaliation into the story.