Help - Neighbors Dog

Okay how do I start this.

I moved back to NC and have been living at my mom’s house again for a while and noticed that one of the neighbors has a dog that they leave outside constantly. I can hear him.

He cries and whimpers and basically screams. I hear them screaming at him to shut the f up, really angrily all the time. Then I’ll hear the dog whimper like he’s being beat repeatedly.

This is in NC where I have noticed either people treat their dogs wonderfully or like the “Deep South you can’t touch my property” type thing. And I’m not exactly sure WHERE the dog is. I can hear him and it’s like adjacent left to my backyard, so one of the houses behind mine. I don’t know where to report it or how to go about doing it if I don’t even have an exact location.

They are abusing him, it’s getting so cold and they don’t bring him inside, he screams and cries all day and night and they scream at him. I don’t understand why they won’t just surrender him. It’s fucking heartbreaking. Is it a power trip??? Some sort of authority thing???? Please help me make sense of this or figure out what to do to help this animal.

Do I just call animal control or the police and give them a general area description?? They can clearly hear the dog crying. I have video and audio recordings. They are hurting this dog.

I don’t want this dog, I want this dog safe and out of their hands. I can’t stand to hear him being hurt or screamed at anymore.

(Used him because idk its gender and it’s easier, and the dogs subreddit said this was a legal issue and I couldn’t post there so I’m posting here.)

Thoughts?