Okay, slight problem here. A direct stare will not make them back down for they are rabid animals.
These animals will simply attack as they did, whether you stare at them or not. It's like Joe Biden saying that racking the action of a 12 ga will make them run away.
No, it won't. Is there only one way to stop this behavior now, especially with no police stopping them or being allowed to stop them? Or, to put it another way, these animals are going to keep doing this for as long as they are breathing and have a pulse. It will never stop until their heartbeat stops.
Period. End of paragraph.