Too crazy! 90 containers are destroyed and looted every day! West-US freight train hits hardest in l

Recently, the theft of the Los Angeles railroad in California, the United States has increased rapidly. Every day, dozens of freight trains are stolen while they are parked. The picture shows that the rails are covered with torn cardboard boxes and garbage, a mess. about 90 containers are damaged every day. It is reported that the goods in these containers are mainly goods from companies such as Amazon and UPS.

California has two major ports, the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, whose container throughput accounts for 40% of the container throughput of the United States.

To put it simply, there are two ways for sea freight to be transported across the United States after it arrives at the port: rail transportation and road transportation (truck). Most of the goods will be transported by rail. In the post-pandemic period, freight traffic has surged, and freight trains, surprisingly, have become an easy and easy target for criminals.
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According to reports, in the fourth quarter of 2021, on average, dozens of cars were hijacked every day on freight trains passing through Los Angeles. The robbers started when the train stopped, using bolt cutters and other tools to pry open the locks of the containers, enter them to select items, and discard the cheap, inconvenient or difficult to re-release goods along the railway. The Associated Press, citing railroad workers who witnessed the robbery, reported that after the robbers pried open the containers, they used vans or trucks to remove the contents.
One of the nation's largest railroad operators, Pacific Unio Railroad, said in a letter to the Los Angeles District Attorney last month that the company's railroad robberies in Los Angeles County have increased 160 percent since December 2020, and a year-over-year increase in October 2021 356%. In the last quarter of 2021, an average of more than 90 container cars were damaged per day in Los Angeles County, according to data provided by the company.

In the last three months of last year, police worked with Unio Pacific Security to arrest more than 100 people on charges of "treating and sabotage," but most were released within 24 hours of their arrest.

The Pacific Unio Railroad believes that the recent high incidence of railroad robberies in Los Angeles is related to the more lenient attitude of prosecutors to such cases. A special counsel for the Los Angeles District Attorney responded that a number of serious cases had been brought against the Pacific Unio Railroad, some of which were dismissed because of insufficient evidence.

Currently, Unio Pacific is planning to deploy more drones, and has prompted sheriffs such as the Los Angeles Police Department and the California Highway Patrol to participate in the fight against theft.