Train robberies in LA now include dozens of guns.

[Suck My Glock]

Probably simple sporting long guns transiting to elsewhere in America, but guns that were onboard the train are now gone.

Maybe now someone takes it serious?

Not likely.

Union Pacific says it's the DA's lack of prosecuting offenders causing it. The DA says security is Union Pacific's problem.

https://www.hastingstribune.com/ap/national/guns-stolen-from-rail-cars-spark-lapd-concern/article_d8a2c8f5-ae59-5caa-b21b-96d3dae43368.html

 

[That Guy]

Oh my! A crime in Los Angeles? After reading this post I purchased an OC White TKEZT-880-D - Ergo-Zoom Trinocular Microscope Package with Camera and Dual Point Fiber Optic Light so I can put forth my very best effort to find even the most minute reason to care about ANYTHING which happens in California.

 

[XJThrottle]

I was reading a week or so ago the it's really the DA. UP has their own police force. They make arrests, but the DA doesn't prosecute.

UP is considering redirecting it's trains to bypass LA.

 

[aroyobob]

https://jalopnik.com/union-pacific-train-thefts-started-right-around-the-tim-1848409360

According to the source, the number of patrolling officers has been cut from 50 to 60 agents to eight, which the worker thinks has led to an increase in train robberies.
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The fact that the other major freight train operator in LA, BNSF, has not seen similar thefts, according to the Los Angeles Times, is quite telling (though with a looming strike of its 17,000 unionized workers, BNSF’s good luck might be running out.) BNSF’s employee numbers wavered by only a few hundred over the last few years. One of Union Pacific’s contract workers also told KTLA that the locks on the containers are also incredibly flimsy, which seems like an easy fix when compared to drone fly-overs.

 

[oldslurrydog1]

Once upon a time, weren't train robbers hung?

 

[Rock Hardson]

Union Pacific police are known for cracking heads. They will take a hickory stick to you and drop you off in some alley.