Big Island Police refuse to address noise complaints.

Police on the Big Island will not investigate a noise complaint on private property. Example: A police dispatcher on August 2, 2006 began to lecture a complainant and said "it's not that we don't want to investigate; we can only do what the county council tells us to do."

It is ironic that a dog barking continuously for twenty minutes can get a response, but ATVs and dirt bikes making more noise than all the hounds of hades and going on for three to six hours results in no action.