Lol California crime out of control : Train robbed update: Guns delivery stolen !

deserves its own thread

 

Off the Rails in L.A.
Lax prosecutions are driving a surge in package thefts for Union Pacific Railroad.

https://www.city-journal.org/union-pacific-facing-rising-rail-thefts-in-los-angeles

excerpt:

Union Pacific has few options. It has increased the number of its special agents, making dozens of arrests and teaming with the LAPD, the County Sheriff’s Department, and the California Highway Patrol to make hundreds more, but prosecutors, according to Guerrero’s letter, have not contacted the railroad for any court proceedings. Union Pacific is also using drones to patrol the tracks leading to the train yard in the Lincoln Heights area and has added fencing and trespass-detention systems.

But more special agents or help from other police departments aren’t enough to deter the thieves and scavengers. Photos of them in the Los Angeles Times and on Twitter reminded me, as a Conrail Police captain in the early 1980s, of an area of Hoboken, New Jersey, that my cops, many of whom were Vietnam veterans, called the Ho Chi Minh Trail because of the difficulty of getting trains through it unmolested. Like Union Pacific’s trains, our trains moved slowly on a single track, making it possible for thieves to jump them and take their pick of the goods. The difference is that, back then, we had the cooperation of the local DA. We knew that cargo theft couldn’t be stopped if arrestees weren’t prosecuted.
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more at the link

 

I was in austin this past weekend and I'd be more concerned with the blurred lines between hipster and homeless there.

If you are worried about californianing my austin..based on the south congress crowd I'd say you are too late

 

Hipsters are taking things too far.

 

it's all fun and games until the train robbers steal guns