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'
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.
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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.