Legal Question in Criminal Law in Georgia

Second attempt: One answer came back on my first question stating that it is vague. Our neighbor harasses our children and it has been ongoing for about 6 years. They call the police for no reason. We don't usually know the reason because the police ride by, see and hear nothing unusual so they don't stop. We know the neighbors called because the police go speak to them after riding slowly by our house watching. They have called the police for various fivilous things. The police come and chat with us then laugh. Once it was because our teen children were in our backyard putting dry ice in coke bottles blowing them up. The police wanted to see it done and thought it was great that they were home under the watchful eye of their parents instead of out drinking and doing drugs. Several times it has been for fireworks which are legal in my state. The police came, checked the fireworks and said to have fun before he left laughing. It has been for noise, but we are not loud and other neighbors stepped up and said that we are not loud, other than the dry ice incident which is a quick noise and not a normal occurance. The husband and wife stand in their driveway with their hands on their hips glaring at our children as they play in our yard, work on their cars in our driveway, ride bikes, etc. They shake their fingers at our kids as they pass by. The man repeatedly pulls his truck almost touching our teen son's rear bumper when our son is at the stop sign leaving our subdivision. He purposely turns his car extremely close to our sons' cars when they are at the stop sign sitting still waiting to leave the subdivision in their turn as he (the neighbor) enters the subdivision. He follows our son out of the subdivision tailgating on the very curvy road just outside our subdivision. The tailgating is the latest escalation and the thing I can't ignore, but the police say they have to see it to do anything about it. He isn't going to do it with the police around. He doesn't do it with me in the car. He put his hands on my son's car as my son was driving home. Our road is short and we live close to the stop sign. As he chased my son (my son in the car and the man on foot) he had his hands on the car telling my 17 year old son to stop and get out. He kept this up from the stop sign to our driveway. My husband refused to call the police that day when we probably could have actually done something. The police say that we should keep a diary of offenses but don't see them glaring constantly and shaking fingers at our kids as threats. Recently, the woman came to our yard and fussed our 9 year old out for no reason. I didn't know about it until a few days later as I was in the house cleaning and had just been watching out the window every few minutes to keep an eye on him. He was playing in our yard with another neighbor's child. So what can we legally do when the police are doing nothing? Should we put video cameras in our sons' cars? Should we put cameras outside our house to catch them standing watching our children constantly? The other attorney on here said to move. We can't move. The economy is still to bad to sell our home. We can't avoid the neighbor. We have to pass their house to get to ours and when they stand anywhere in their front yard or driveway, they have a clear view of half of our property.

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