Brer Rabbit
Pursuit Specialist
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- Feb 5, 2005
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The Metra railroad has its own Police force in Illinois and as far as I know they are mostly made up of retired city and suburban dept. police officers. All of the dealings I have had with them have been great, and yesterday evening around 10 O' clock an offender/s shot and killed a Metra policeman as he was watching a station from his car, that has had a series of Robberies recently. I cant stress how bad I feel for the family and friends of this fallen Officer, I only hope that the investigation leads to the arrest and conviction of the offender/s. Dont be suprised if U see a few Police involved shootings in the next week or so as we tend to get a lil hi strung after incidents like this. My partner and I usually have or weapons out and ready on street and vehicle stops so in the event that a subject has bad intentions we should come out OK. The problem is we cant see everybody all the time. I usually take the time to explain our actions these days but I dont think it helps. Incidents like the Metra Officers murder kind of justify our actions.