This is actually a fairly large problem these days. As you point out, you take people who just cant help but "virtue signal" and combine this with an anonymous

This is actually a fairly large problem these days. As you point out, you take people who just cant help but "virtue signal" and combine this with an anonymous reporting system and now that system is being abused. The other day I took my dog for a walk and a young girl (around 5) approached me to ask if she could pat him. I had a short conversation with the girl, told her to make sure she is careful with the roads (we met at an intersection) and asked if her parents know where she is. She told me she has a walky-talky and her mom is aware. I did not see a need to do anything further, the young girl knew her way home, she was like 5-6 houses away in a safe and quiet area. But some "stranger danger" nut jobs feel they have a duty to protect YOUR kids from their imagined danger? My dog is rather large and a rehome with some bad behaviour attributes so at times i need to be firm with him to encourage him to change. I certainly dont "beat" him as that accomplishes nothing, but he is "yelled at" and made to sit down and not allowed to continue walking until he calms down. someone reported me to animal control, who then came to my house. They were not able to tell me who called, when, what took place, etc. How do yo defend your actions when you are not allowed to know what the actions were? Flip side, if my large dog bit one of the off-leash dogs in the area the owners would then be reporting me for this? Cant discipline the dog for being bad around other dogs, cant let the dog be aggressive to other dogs? These reporting systems are rapidly becoming "weaponized".