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Recently, on overseas social platforms, a video was widely circulated: a railway track was full of waste cartons, plastics, foam and other items, and the scene was a mess. Seeing such a scene, many netizens think of India, or some other poor and small countries, but this is the real United States, the scene after the Freight Train in Los Angeles was robbed.
According to reports such as CCTV Finance and Economics, this video was taken in Los Angeles County, California, and recently, local railway theft cases are rampant, many freight trains have been looted, thieves will take advantage of the train to stop or slow down when the train jumps on the train, using the pliers and other tools carried to open the container, but wanton theft. There are a lot of goods on the train, and the thieves only pick the most expensive items, and the worthless goods are discarded casually, even the new new crown test reagents, these thieves are dismissive.
According to reports, most of these goods come from the Amazon or UPS, they should have been sent to the residents of the west coast of the United States, but they were looted by thieves halfway, and the American people who could not wait for the package were also crying without tears, and some people were still waiting for the test kit for the new crown test. Several similar cases have occurred in the area in recent months, and the Union Pacific Railroad, which is responsible for transportation, said that in the last three months of last year, it and local police arrested about 100 thieves, but they were still unable to prevent the goods from being looted.
On the one hand, this is because the epidemic in the United States has worsened, the economy is sluggish, unemployment and poverty have increased, and many people have begun to rely on theft and robbery to survive. In the U.S., on the other hand, prosecutions for low-level crimes have become more difficult, so some people have started to provoke the law. Even nearby residents were getting moved, not directly involved in looting, but often sneaking over to the railroad to pick up leaks and see what else was available.
Faced with such a situation, the Los Angeles police have no choice, even if they try their best to catch these thieves, they will be released within 24 hours, and a considerable number of people cannot be prosecuted, so they fall into a vicious circle. In response to the latest looting, the Los Angeles Police Department said that the railroad companies had their own policing forces anyway, and as long as they did not ask for help, they would not intervene.
In fact, this is no longer a simple theft, but a "zero dollar purchase", close to robbery, but there are too many crimes in American society, and the police do not have the energy to take care of it. It wasn't just trains that were robbed, but also big trucks. In the early morning of the 14th, the United States United Parcel said that the company's bus full of goods just left the express delivery hub, it was hijacked by thieves, these people rampant robbery, the company suffered heavy losses. Since November last year, there have been several cases of masked robberies robbing department stores and jewelry stores in California, including as many as 80 robbers at one time.
These cases have also sparked discussions among netizens from all over the world, and some people say that it is difficult to believe that such a scene will be staged in the United States, and they are not "the richest countries in the world". Some netizens lamented that this is really a "free" United States, and this empire is on the verge of collapse.
From this video of the ransacking of freight trains, it is enough to see that American society is becoming more and more chaotic, and various contradictions are becoming more and more acute, from the economy to justice and politics, there are already serious problems in the United States, and if the US government continues to pretend to be deaf and dumb, the greater crisis that has been brewing will eventually break out.