I have a new neighbor who is a Police Officer. I live a couple houses down. I work from home in my Garage. I hand make custom high end Knife Sheaths (NOTHING ILLEGAL ABOUT STARTING A BUSINESS AT HOME IN MY GARAGE, LOOK AT ALL THE BIG COMPANIES THAT ACTUALLY DID START IN A GARAGE). I opened my garage door for a while to work and to enjoy the fresh air. After a while I see strangers walk by and solicitors "sneak" up behind me with my back turned. I have my entire business with VERY expensive knives and custom made knives and Knives my customers mail to me for a custom sheath. I start to think about it and decide, I BETTER START KEEPING THE GARAGE DOOR CLOSED!!! Before I get ROBBED! I have THOUSANDS of dollars of knives situated on my wall in a certain way and organized for easy work for me. Anyhow, I do see the "new" neighbor walk by my house and he has looked to see what I am up to. I would love to meet new neighbors and make them feel welcome, BUT, they are kinda rude! My wife even walked down to say "HI" and his response was with his back turned and talking about " prepapring for his detective work!! and that was the extent of the "welcome hello...LOL... My wife thought, WOW! what a JERK! Won't even small talk to to get to know eachother or even exchange names. One day an old lady that I know well came to my house and asked if I could do a favor for her and I said YES! Absolutely! Well, I drive down to her house with my trailer to move her lawn mower and I see him outside doing "something" in the trunk of his police car. I am standing right next door in plain sight looking at him with a smile. NO RESPONSE, but a serious "business" face. He did look at me and thats it and I even waved! Well one day I was doing work in my garage, making a lot of shop noise in the middle of the day and all of a sudden his WIFE runs down the street and leans over to get a look at my plate number and runs back home! I found this out because my dog was barking his head off, so I go to see what the deal is with him, and sure enough, I caught her getting plates and taking off like a bolt of lightning back home trying not to get caught! I was playing with my garage door that day trying to keep it low so strangers dont get any ideas of breaking in my home. Plus I was adjusting my "slack" on my garage door opener chain and trying to fix the seals on my doors since it was getting cold out. I don't feel like working in a cold garage, so I have every right to do maintainance and open my door partially if I want to, Its my HOUSE! Its no mystery, I have seen him "rubber necking" to see in my garage. There is nothing obvious and knives are completely legal. Why did he think I was doing something wrong? There are a lot of neighbors that work at home. And he had LOTS of chances to get to know us and even come over to see what I do. In Fact a LOT of my customers ARE Police and Military since they want me to custom make tactical sheaths for their knives. My truck is in my driveway all the time on my property, NOT the city, I do not need to leave very much since my "drive to work is to walk in the garage", its a great way to save on fuel costs!..LOL. I did nothing but make sheaths. I am a fully registered real LLC business. I play with my kids in the front yard, I ride my bike and walk with my family and am at peace and friendly with everyone around me, We have cook overs and I invite neighbors over for BBQ and me and the guys go to the garage (converted into shop) to check out my creations. 99% of my knives are fancy heirlooms or very nice camp or hunting knives. In indiana there are NO laws that prohibit what I do. Are there cops that do that? do they check law abiding people and to checks on them to know who they are even their private lives??? I did not confront him, but after a few days I did call the police to ask about this and they told me and encouraged me filing harassment but I am not the type of guy that is looking to make someones life miserable, even THEY said that was kinda crappy to not try to get to know your neighbor, but instead checking plates, thats kinda creepy and scary, and makes me feel like I am under control and hes got power to do whatever! Is he on a power trip or thinks he can do whatever he wants? Is what he did ethical even when we had tons of opportunity to just meet and shake hands?? Are there any civil actions or even criminal actions I can look into??? Not that I want to get him in trouble but just in case it happens again or to anyone else. He even walked by my house with a local officer stating "thats the house" ( I can hear EVERYTHING through my garage doors, plus my dog is a great watch dog). Its been weeks since that happened and no one has come to my door to ask me any questions. But I do not want to be a victim of abuse of power. I hear of tooooo damn many people being victimized and their rights walked all over and feel like they are under martial law with stritct rules to live by. I am at the point that I dont even want to be outside anymore. I hear some bad police will lie and do anything to make your life difficult just becuase they can. I will not go to their house or their property, I even tell my 5 yearold daughter who I am trying to teach how to ride her bike not to enter their driveway, just to turn around. We should not live like this. I would rather live next to a thug! And thats BAD for me to even think that. Ever since I have been allll over youtube and I was SHOCKED by the abuse of power on people. What happen to just keeping the peace??? Its seems more like paramilitary police!