Remember Officer Skerski

Officer Skerski wasn't just a cop who reported to the neighborhoood for work and then went home. He became the neighborhood. He was at community meetings, church meetings etc. He cared aout the city as a whole and he will not be forgotten.

Scott Cummings, president of the Mayfair Civic Association, said the first e-mail in his in-box yesterday morning was from Skerski. The pair were thinking of a way to honor the crossing guards in their district.
"I don't think a guy like Gary can be replaced," Cummings said.
During one recent community meeting, Skerski could not stop praising two fellow officers for their arrest of a pair of gunmen, recalled John McCarthy, president of Mayfair Town Watch. He kept saying how brave the men had been, how they had willingly gone into a situation that they knew was dangerous without thinking twice. Because it was their job.
And then Monday night, Cummings said, Skerski did the same thing.
From todays Inquirer
"I think the man is an absolute hero," Cummings said.