Need advice from former law enforcement, veterans, or anyone who has had experience with potential neighborhood prowlers and casers...

My suggestion would be - and this would depend on your town - to request additional patrols. Keep your cameras up and recording and be vigilant. But most importantly, report everything, every time. u/howthedaygoesby offers good advice, check to see if there are any reported incidents in your area. As to any continued hijinx, you need to report it every time. This will give you credibility and establish premeditation, should anything escalate.

The last thing I want to do is to minimize your experience, because from what you wrote, it's unnerving. But it might be worth something to you if I told you that I experienced something very similar, which had a bit of a dramatic end.

While I was still living at home, there were some random teens that scouted out my house in particular and did a bit of juvenile stalking. My mother would be home alone until I arrived at around 9pm, and it was within this time that they played their game. She knew someone was looking into the windows in the back and ringing the bell and leaving a basketball, just really irrational shit. But we're talking about my Mom, so I was pretty upset.

Knowing this was happening, I came home one night and cut my lights before the top of the hill. I approached the house with my dark and quiet car to see these assclowns sneaking along the fence. Immediately, I threw on my brights and aimed for them. I was pissed and not thinking clearly. I went up on the curb and when my car hit the wet grass, I realized that I might be in the process of committing vehicular manslaughter. Indeed, I momentarily pinned one of them against the fence. Thankfully, he was uninjured. But I saw him, I knew where he lived.

The police arrived and after taking my report, he went to this kids house (he was 17-18). The kid crumbled under questioning. In the end, it meant nothing. They targeted our house for literally no reason at all - other than that it was on the corner, and they had no intention to cause any harm, they were just being idiots. The policemen, both of them, assured us that this was not unusual. Punk #1 gave up his friends, so the cops went to visit with them and their parents as well. The police told us that they would be amazed if it continued. It didn't.

As to my pinning the kid against the fence, well... seeing that he was uninjured, the policemen told him that there were "multiple" reports of his trespassing on private property and stalking, then he told him that "You were on their property again, do you really want to go there?" Clearly, the cop did me a solid, because I could have seen some trouble over that.

All of this is to say, it may well be random horseplay and not at all personal. Just document everything and keep your eyes open.

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