Hey Dex,
I appreciate alll of your wonderful suggestions. What I decided to do is to try and start up a neighborhood watch program. Also, I emailed every administrator in my hometown, from the town planner to attorney general and the local media. So hopefully something good will come from one of these avenues. Again I truly appreciate your thoughtful suggestions. By the way the police are very responsive to this situation they hate those teenage punks more than I do.....they even told me that! They want to get them with a vengenance so that is good for me. They said they are going to step up patrols in my area.

Jenn