{"id":1222107,"date":"2022-01-18T13:52:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1222107"},"modified":"2022-01-18T13:52:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:52:21","slug":"union-pacific-demands-soros-backed-l-a-d-a-george-gascon-do-more-to-stop-rail-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-pacific-demands-soros-backed-l-a-d-a-george-gascon-do-more-to-stop-rail-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Pacific Demands Soros-backed L.A. D.A. George Gascon Do More to Stop Rail Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funion-pacific-demands-soros-backed-l-a-d-a-george-gascon-do-more-to-stop-rail-theft%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1222107&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/George-Gascon-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Union Pacific sent a letter to Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n last month threatening to route rail cargo traffic elsewhere if he would not prosecute theft and looting from cargo trains more aggressively, it was revealed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2022-01-17\/supply-chain-latest-union-pacific-battles-rail-freight-theft-in-l-a\">reported<\/a> that the rail company sent a letter to Gasc\u00f3n in December, citing repeated theft from its trains near downtown Los Angeles, which came to public attention last week as video of the looting and debris went viral.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2022-01-17\/supply-chain-latest-union-pacific-battles-rail-freight-theft-in-l-a\">noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCustomers like UPS and FedEx that utilize our essential rail service during peak holiday season are now seeking to divert rail business away to other areas in the hope of avoiding the organized and opportunistic criminal theft that has impacted their own business and customers,\u201d UP public affairs director Adrian Guerrero wrote in a Dec. 20 letter to the Los Angeles district attorney.<\/p>\n<p>The letter added that \u201clike our customers, UP is now contemplating serious changes to our operating plans to avoid Los Angeles County.\u201d A spokeswoman said in an emailed statement on Sunday that the company is still considering such options.<\/p>\n<p>In the three months leading up to the holiday shopping season, UP said an average of more than 90 containers were compromised per day and more than 100 arrests were made. \u201cOf all those arrests, however, UP has not been contacted for any court proceedings,\u201d the letter stated.<\/p>\n<p>The railroad has increased the number of agents, drones, fencing and trespass detection systems. \u201cWe need the L.A. District Attorney\u2019s help to ensure there are consequences for those who prevent us from safely moving customer goods,\u201d UP said in the statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gasc\u00f3n, who won election in 2020 with donations of millions of dollars from left-wing billionaire George Soros, has pursued an agenda of \u201ccriminal justice reform\u201d that seeks lenient sentences, and that has enraged local residents during a crime wave.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/01\/18\/pete-buttigieg-silent-on-looting-from-cargo-trains-in-los-angeles\/\">reported<\/a> Tuesday, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has been quite about the spate of rail theft, though he has tried to claim credit for incremental improvements at the Los Angeles and Long Beach cargo port facilities.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Pacific sent a letter to Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n last month threatening to route rail cargo traffic elsewhere if he would not prosecute theft and looting from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}