Very long story short: we have nightmares neighbours. Two AWFUL people in their late 60’s with a long history of harrassing people, lying about them and pushing them to the brink. I won’t go too far into specifics because it could be outing but so far they have falsely accused us of bursting their car tyres (despite the fact the tyres were not flat) kicking their front door in and trying to run them over, among other things.
Meanwhile they HAVE actually harassed us in many small ways which in isolation don’t seem like a big deal but as a bigger picture paint a really picture of harrasment. Standing outside our house telling lies, filming us as we go about our day, and worse - intimidating my children. They were swearing at and filming my children as they played in the garden in the summer.
I have a Ring doorbell cam. Whenever I’ve reported them I’ve been told “that isn’t enough because it’s not a crime to film people on the street/leave your car idling for an hour at 4am/block your car in so you can’t leave the street”. and when I reported what they did to my kids I was told that because I had no evidence there’s nothing they can do, even though pictures of my kids are on their phone, and because they denied it. The police didn’t even speak to my kids about it.
The problem is, their complaints are perused. They recently intimidate me outside their house (they like to get big brick shit house men to come round and do this). My husband went out and told the brick shithouse to fuck off and leave his wife alone.
We got a visit from the police the next day saying they said my DH had threatened them. I showed them the footage to prove otherwise.
My problem is now this - the police constantly brush me off, despite having evidence, including about the intimidation from the brick shithouse. However they want me to email them videos so that the neighbour’s claims can be disproved.
The burden of proof is not on me to disprove their claims. I don’t want to send videos to enable their investigation against me, I only want to send videos to prove their harassment of me. I was told they could do nothing about what they did to my kids because lack of evidence - yet when THEY have lack of evidence it doesn’t matter, I get a phone call expecting me to prove my innocence.
WIBU to tell the police I’m not sending videos unless it helps my case, not because I have to prove innocence against ridiculous claims?
They have spent years doing this to other neighbours and the police have done nothing about it. It seems the neighbours are very careful to err on the side of legal. The other neighbours have told me similar stories of false accusations that go back decades. Surely repeat offenders should be arrested at some point! The police asked to see footage of the day they accused us of trying to run them over. I did, in person, and it shows that nothing happened except THEY stood too close to the road then started screaming blue murder as we drove past them. Yet the fact they made a false report is totally glossed over.