To my perspective, describing the neighbours as 'terrorized' could be hyperbolic as well.
This group home wouldn't be the same as the one you were in. These kids have other challenges. And they have only been there 2 months. There's only 3 of them and they have trained staff looking after them. How 'terrorized' could the neighbours be?
I don't think anyone said that they didn't have valid concerns. Just the way it was handled by DF was absolutely terrible, and the comments that the residents made came off very poorly as well.
The street I used to live on was Maynard as well. (I described it a few pages back.) As I explained earlier, the people who lived in those homes never made me feel unsafe, despite their propensity for yelling at 4 in the morning. But that is the point I was making, with saying some of the neighbours might be scared by 'everyone and everything." (And yes, that is an exaggeration, but it was a literary one.
) Feeling safe is also a state of mind.
I will agree with you that we don't know the whole story. I would like to know how many times EMS were called. I would like to hear from other neighbours. As someone noted above from reddit, someone else close by never heard anything. The Griffin staff have said they were very disappointed in what DF said, and basically alluded to him lying about things that have happened. (eg:him saying that the kids were criminals when they weren't etc.)