Excellent.
I agree completely it is a bad idea and is more inhumane to the animal. As my grandpa use to say. "there are worse things in life worse than death"
The other side of the relocation is that you have put a raccoon or any animal for that matter in the territory of another.
There will be fights and typically the rights holder to that territory wins thus sending the loser off or killing it.
You may have dumped your problem onto another, its...
I live in a suburban neighborhood. Several years ago I (neighborhood) was overrun with raccoons. The local animal control officer set traps around my coop. We caught numerous raccoons. She would take them and release them along the Missouri River bottoms, approx. 4-5 miles from my house...
Come live where I live. The deer darn near beat the back door down to get in the fridge for vegetables. Then when county and local leaders try to have a controlled bow hunt to thing the herd the wailing a crying start. They want the deer trapped and relocated or trapped and birth control...
This happens so much at my place of employment the maintenance guy (who has chickens by the way) actually made a chicken plank to put in the dumpster so they can get when they can't .
Those are some fat raccoons.
Here is my fool proof method after dealing with smart coons.
I use a can of sardines. I dig a small hole, place the sardines in the hole, place trap over hole, place cinder block on trap, next morning Mr. or Mrs. raccoon is awaiting their dirt nap. Any time I have set this I have caught...