by Red Wing
What's the cost to benefit ratio. It appears to me that UP doesn't care yet because it's cheaper to pay the insurance than be proactive and harden their property.
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Gilbert B Norman wrote: This phenomenon simply seems like one more offshoot of the pervasive lawlessness our society has faced during the COVID era. We've all certainly observed "70 in a 45", verbal abuse of public contact employees, and have learned of (hopefully not observed) the brazen burglaries confronting retail merchants.This has NOTHING to do with COVID. It was against the law to break into railcars before the illness, it's still just as illegal today. And if COVID ended this afternoon, it would still be prohibited the same.
One of these days, COVID will end (even if I fear Omicron will not be the last of the variants) and hopefully with it this societal lawlessness.
BR&P wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 10:08 pm While the UP Police may be armed, they are bound by the same limits - legal and societal - as their municipal counterparts. Whether it's a pistol on their hip or a semi-automatic rifle, the same limits apply. As effective as it might seem, they obviously can't just start picking off everybody they see looting a container. And the thugs KNOW the cops' hands are tied, and use that to their own advantage.Shooting warning shots at people with guns is looked down on, when they aren't firing first.