[don-o]

the worst is that the cops will paint a target on you.

What part of "To protect and serve" does that fall under? So your advice is to shut up and take it?

[BADROTOFINGER]

Shut up and take what, exactly? We PAY police officers to investigate suspicious people when we call them. So some douchebag neighbor of yours mistakenly thought you (or maybe not you, we do not know) were a shady character. The officer investigated by asking you for ID and what you were doing. You produced the ID and told him what you were doing. Then you parted ways.

What do you want to do? Sue for harassment? Lost wages?

It appears to me, or any reasonable person, that 'To protect and serve' is EXACTLY what the officer was doing. Yeah, its irritating. You just deal with it. I have had the same sort of thing happen to me. Look at it as an opportunity to make a friend of a neighborhood LEO, not make enemies out of all of them by trying to get him fired for DOING HIS JOB, for crying out loud...JFK