You are correct. We were told by the sheriff’s deputy that our “neighbor” trespassing on our lot and deliberately and with malice destroying our landscape beds and borders was really a “civil matter”, then told us to get a lawyer. When in fact trespass is a criminal act under our state’s law. Had it up to here with these phony pension-building cops.
But if you had "laid for" your neighbor and jumped him in the dark off-camera and beaten him to a pulp, the popo would have been ALL OVER you.