Firecrackers getting bigger and sooner in Berlin. Where is the police?

fwiw the issue is that the police legally can't do much unless they catch someone in the act, which is basically impossible with random bangers in the dark. the real problem is that the laws around pyrotechnik only ban usage on like 364 days a year, but selling them starts way earlier and nobody checks what people actually do with them after buying

what actually worked for a friend in Neukölln was going to their local Bezirksamt and asking for a "Gefährderansprache" for known repeat offenders in the area. apparently if you can identify specific people or locations the Ordnungsamt can actually send someone to talk to them, and that alone scared a few guys into stopping

also worth checking if your dog has a "Hundeausweis" with a noted anxiety disorder. sounds dumb but if you get the vet to document it, you can sometimes get the Tierarzt to prescribe real meds like Acepromazine instead of just CBD. we had to do that for our old dog and it made november through january actually bearable

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yeah the police basically ignore firecracker stuff unless they catch someone in the act on silvester. the problem is enforcement is basically zero outside of that night. your best bet is actually filing a formal complaint with the Polizei online every time it happens, they have to log it and it builds a paper trail for your local Bezirksamt

i know a few people in Friedrichshain who got their Kiezdienst to actually patrol more during december after enough complaints. might be worth asking your local Bürgeramt about setting up a "Lärmprotokoll" where you document dates and times. it's a pain but it works sometimes

also check if your dog can get prescribed something from the vet for the anxiety, we used CBD treats for ours and it took the edge off enough that the shaking stopped

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honestly the police dont care about noise complaints unless its like 3am and someone called it in. maybe try talking to your local Ordnungsamt they actually handle this stuff sometimes

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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