"Send us an email about your neighbor once a week or we drag you through the court system as slowly as we can" will work on 90% of people id bet even if everyone involved knows Noone is actually going to prison

You can beat the charge, but sorry your life got ruined, you lost your job due to federal charges, lost your security clearance, your wife left you because it's impractical to raise children with dad in jail and siphoning all the family money to lawyers, you have an arrest record, and now you're on the top list for officers to fuck with at every oppotunity they get.

Remember, they only have to 'win' once, you have to 'win' every time.

How much does it cost to convince the judge that you simply misremembered the weather that day?