How to Protect Your Family and Yourself Against Revenge Threats

Like most cops, Bob Willis considered his home a safe haven–until the Christmas Eve a gang of Asian criminals tried to crash through his front door and he ended up, barefoot in the snow, in a gunfight in his back yard. That startling ordeal, which terrorized not only his family but a house full of holiday guests as well, remains unsolved. But Willis, then a patrol officer in New Berlin (Wisconsin), has no doubt it was a strike of revenge…and an ominous warning: Stop interfering with a roving band of armed robbers and “opportunity predators” that his department had been pursuing—or cops will pay.