Woke LA DA George Gascon blames UNION
PACIFIC for thefts from trains and claims
firm 'does little to secure or lock trains'
after Gov Gavin Newsom said railroads
'look like a third-world country'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Stephen M. Lepore
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/22/2022 10:26:35 PM
Progressive Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón is firing back at a railroad company that has taken shots at him for not doing more to stop train burglaries in the area, despite the company's pleas for his office's assistance.(Snip)'These individuals are generally caught and released back onto the streets in less than twenty-four hours. Criminals boast to our officers that charges will be pled down to simple trespassing—which bears no serious consequence,' the letter from UP's California director of public affairs Adrian Guerrero said. UP said it experienced a 160 percent increase in criminal rail theft in LA County over the past year.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
john56 1/22/2022 10:42:12 PM (No. 1047773)
When I see rail cars with intricate tagging ... not my idea of art, but obviously not done without a lot of time, effort, and materials, I question the security at rail yards.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/22/2022 10:45:01 PM (No. 1047775)
DoubleDown-R-Us
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JrSample 1/22/2022 10:53:15 PM (No. 1047778)
Funny how the trains are not being robbed anywhere else.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 1/22/2022 10:53:39 PM (No. 1047779)
Companies need to simply stop shipping anything by freight to Los Angeles. Companies will have to send things by mail and just charge customers more based on the postage. Mail theft is a federal crime so the corrupt DA has nothing to do with it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 1/23/2022 1:12:40 AM (No. 1047838)
Gascon needs to be unemployed. He can do his lying elsewhere.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Trigger2 1/23/2022 2:25:07 AM (No. 1047855)
There goes Gascon again - blaming the railroads and protecting his criminals.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
The Remnants 1/23/2022 3:59:32 AM (No. 1047869)
These people who hate our country and are happy if their lawless policies would turn it into a third-world country, are upset because their lawless policies are turning it into a third-world country.
(Something about reaping what your sow.)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 1/23/2022 4:57:07 AM (No. 1047874)
And the Lord Hairdo looked down on his creation and was pleased, for it was good. "Verily I say unto thee that I shall spread my 3rd world s--thole across the land, and my Vermin shall have Dominion over all creatures, over the air, the land and the waters"
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 1/23/2022 6:40:29 AM (No. 1047913)
LA is a third world country with this DA. Wake up people, time to send this clown packing.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 1/23/2022 6:51:16 AM (No. 1047921)
Hi UP. One rather easy solution would be to stop doing business in California. A lot of other companies are doing that, why not you? (This may be rhetorical considering the heavy government involvement in railroads).
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lazyman 1/23/2022 7:51:32 AM (No. 1047946)
Blaming the victim?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 1/23/2022 7:56:55 AM (No. 1047951)
Railroads could add barriers to the ends of intermodal cars to prevent the opening of containers when on the car. I imagine paying for theft is cheaper.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/23/2022 10:05:35 AM (No. 1048098)
Apparently Gascon has not heard of bolt cutters, hacksaws or crowbars, any of which will defeat the best locks. I recomment poison gas canisters set up with trip wires just inside the boxcar doors. All the police would have to do is bag and tag the little thieves.
Better yet, the cars carrying live zoo animals can be labeled otherwise. "Officer, I have no idea how that lion got in there."
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TCloud 1/23/2022 10:06:09 AM (No. 1048099)
Immediate solution would be to abandon Cali like El Quicko!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
petrichor 1/23/2022 10:24:29 AM (No. 1048128)
Pretty much the same thing as accusing rape victims of enticing rapists.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
columba 1/23/2022 10:39:22 AM (No. 1048158)
I was taught to respect other people's property. How many of the people who are stealing such property have been taught the ten commandments.
And don't ask me who wrote them.
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About time the rail system owners started providing their own security. And don't blame them Gascon if your little darlings don't like what the security dishes out. Thieves and thugs who pilfer from others deserve a heavy handed response. Because the time has long since passed for any kind of 'nice' response IMO. Yes, it will add cost to products, but then so do your own actions and policies Spanky. You and your mayor have turned LA into a third world country, and it could not happen to a more deserving bunch. Enjoy the embarrassment.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 1/23/2022 11:50:02 AM (No. 1048232)
The railroads used to have their own security forces. Railroad detectives were The Law on the trains and in the railyards. They were all armed. What happened to them?
If a few thieves were found dead by the side of the tracks, this would stop, pronto. Let the railroad detectives do their job.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 1/23/2022 11:57:00 AM (No. 1048238)
If RR security would just shoot a few of the looters, it would quickly end. But, this pompous advocate for anarchy would indict the security, I'm sure.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Penney 1/23/2022 2:16:42 PM (No. 1048354)
These days the dem pols are trying to turn the Rule of Law upside-down by excusing the crimes committed by thieves, crooks and now even murders, while targeting the innocent for scorn. In America, each individual is, according to the Law, responsible for choices made and each person is accountable to the Law, ...EACH person, from thieves to murders, NOT their victims. The dem pols shield the crooks from accountability while the innocent is suffer.
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The woke prosecutor says Union Pacific is filing fewer cases for prosecution, but is that because the city does nothing to punish the thieves, making the entire process a costly charade? Railroad bosses with brass would move operations out of the area at once; hit them where it hurts, in the revenue and fees the city devours.