Railroad Cop in Chicago, part II

greyhounds

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August 2003
From: Antioch, IL
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Posted by greyhounds on Saturday, March 6, 2021 7:04 PM

The job is not for the faint of heart.

"Ticket, ticket?" "I ain't got to show you no stinkin' ticket."

Bond set at $50,000 for man shot by rail police officer during struggle that began with ticket collection, prosecutors say (yahoo.com)

"By many measures, the U.S. freight rail system is the safest, most efficient and cost effective in the world." - Federal Railroad Administration, October, 2009. I'm just your average, everyday, uncivilized howling "anti-government" critic of mass government expenditures for "High Speed Rail" in the US. And I'm gosh darn proud of that.

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BaltACD

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May 2003
From: US
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Posted by BaltACD on Saturday, March 6, 2021 7:25 PM

Tough neighborhood.

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

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Convicted One

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April 2007
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Posted by Convicted One on Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:16 PM

I'm sure the assailant had coming what he got. But, how far has journalism devolved, to the extent that news stories refer to peace officers as "cops"? I mean we do all the time, but I always though the legitimate media was more....formal?

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tree68

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From: Northern New York
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Posted by tree68 on Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:29 PM

Convicted One
I'm sure the assailant had coming what he got. But, how far has journalism devolved, to the extent that news stories refer to peace officers as "cops"? I mean we do all the time, but I always though the legitimate media was more....formal?

Alas, in today's climate, LEO's are often held as the bad guys, whether they deserve it or not.

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BaltACD

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May 2003
From: US
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Posted by BaltACD on Saturday, March 6, 2021 10:45 PM

Convicted One
I'm sure the assailant had coming what he got. But, how far has journalism devolved, to the extent that news stories refer to peace officers as "cops"? I mean we do all the time, but I always though the legitimate media was more....formal?

Everyone with a telephone that takes pictures and can produce a keyboard thinks they are a 'journalist'. That being said they have never learned to 'fact check' from reliable proven sources.

The 'print media' is only a pale shadow of what it was 'in the day'; and it has just emerged from a 4 year War on the truth and it is still fighting occasional skirmishes.

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

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Backshop

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Posted by Backshop on Sunday, March 7, 2021 12:17 PM

I had a run in with a "bad" Michigan State Police trooper 33 years ago and that's colored my view on most of them, until they prove differently to me. Not that I have a lot of interaction with them personally, but working in the firearms industry, you run into a lot of them.

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Convicted One

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April 2007
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Posted by Convicted One on Sunday, March 7, 2021 1:08 PM

Cops don't bother me nearly as much as they used to.

Sometimes it tickles me over how much time they are willing to waste in my rearview mirror, when they instead should be out chasing genuine badguys. Smile, Wink & Grin