the procedure is to live trap coons, shoot them in the head at close range and put them in a plastic garbage bag in the garbage.
Do it over and over till they stop coming.
Occasionally United State foreign policy has pretty much followed that same model.
Actually, all that does is free up territory for more coons to breed and invade the area.
Coons are not colony animals.
Each one has a specific territory which it will defend.
They may put up with each other at a “feeding station”, i.e., your trash can but they do it begrudgingly.
The only time I’ve *ever* seen more than one coon at a time was a mother with babies.
There’s also the possibility that shooting them in the head ‘at close range’ could spray their brain tissue/saliva into your eyes, nose, mouth or an open cut.
Bad luck if they happen to be a rabies carrier.
Somebody I know wound up dragging a trapped live coon to the SPCA because he got too close to it and it hissed and the spit went in his eye.
Luckily, the coon wasn’t rabid.