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Discounted Girl:
It is quite likely the neighborhood riffraff will move away in time or some event will happen to cause them to change their habits. But, I don't think you as a woman with a child in the house should be trying to play citizen cop with a bunch of drunks. It's too dangerous and has nothing to do with your "boundaries." It will not work and you will be the loser when it's all said and done.

I think you should insist that law enforcement does their job the next time it happens. Call them every 10 minutes if you need to. Also, take the phone outside and let them hear the ruckus for themselves.

In America when you say "cut them some slack," it means to give some extra leeway and don't be a tight ass -- let them step over the line a little little. Example, if a child has been ill, perhaps the parents would "cut them some slack" when they misbehaved by not correcting them or seeing to it that their misbehavior warranted consequences; i.e., overlooking some things. Maybe your brother is on the slackers' side because that is what he is, a slacker and he is always expecting and getting extra entitlements. Perhaps he is a neighborhood nuisance also.

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