God that's horrible. And what were the anti's saying about Sherriff Clarke? His advice is and always will be true. Unless we have a 1:1 ratio for police vs household, there will never be any other way to stop a threat besides taking decisive deadly force.
I called the police once on a death threat at my job for one of my employees. I was told that they cannot do anything until a crime has been committed and to call them if something happens and they will be there in 5 minutes (read 300 seconds) LOL. They need to rename themselves to the clean up crew.