I saw that thread too. Try saying it to them a different way, isolated from an informational article, like, "is it problematic that there are gangs of children in ATVs menacing the citizens of PVD?"

and you will find a fat % of them denying it's the case, or saying WELL I heard about that stuff but I've never seen it, another fat % telling you your comment has unwholesomely racial overtones regardless of its content, a substantial % asking you whether you just need PVD to be more similar to the suburbs, and then yeah maybe a small group who do perceive the behavior as a problem requiring a solution. None of them realizing for an instant that the victim blaming and "well I haven't experienced it so it must not exist" attitudes are exactly what progressive liberalism has been intending to combat for the last couple of decades. Then you might ask if the cops and simple enforcement are an appropriate solution and see how that goes--and I say this as an ACAB guy.

I can absolutely guarantee you, having posted in that forum on this exact topic before, albeit with a different account, that the bulk of the users there are more concerned with how you've identified this as a problem and how that might make YOU problematic, than with it being a problem in the first place.