Call 311. Do it every time you see the unleashed dog outside. At some point, the number of complaints will meet some metric and cops will start ticketing the assholes who own the dog. Enough tickets, and the problem goes away.

There’s no primary. Did you not read the comment you replied to?

Run how? The two parties submit their lists. Lists that they pick behind the scenes. Lists that are somehow identical to each other because the Dem and Rep party bosses have clearly made a deal.

All the judges here where I live in Brooklyn were unopposed, and there's no primary for them. They either ran just as Dems or as both Dems and Reps. They were all pretty clearly chosen by the party machine.

It's fucking absurd. Either there should be primaries for them, or the mayor should appoint them with the consent of the city council. Judges should not be appointed by unelected party bosses.

There’s limited space in the city. I’m not sure how many more designated places there can be, at least in the parts of the city I spend time in. Over the last decade, there was a huge growth in the number of dog runs and off leash areas. Who do we take more space from? Kids? Adults playing sports? Designated wildlife areas? Cemeteries? Community gardens?

At some point, there may need to an acknowledgment of reality among dog owners - if they want lots of room for their pets to roam, a densely populated city might not be the place for them. People move to the burbs for schools and yards for their kids all the time.

Dog owners around the city have gotten out of hand over the last couple years. They take up all sorts of spaces they shouldn’t, disrespect off leash/on leash hours, and leave large amounts of poop and pee in children’s play areas. It’s way worse than it was pre-covid.

Like most such decorations, these will be in a landfill for a few centuries. Gotta love our disposable culture.