Why does UP allow the homeless to camp along the railroad? There are many of them in the Oakland area in particular and they leave their trash everywhere including on the tracks themselves which is a safety hazard. There are so of them all over the place to where there's no way UP Police don't realize what's going on.
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That wasn't them "hiring more" Special Agents. That was the result of one of them quitting recently. I'm sure more will follow.
@2ahn+16mtQtzy Really, then why did I see this? https://up.jobs/job/opening/Special%20Agent/Oakland/CA/089349?jsl=47687850
It’s estimated that at least a third of of the homeless are mentally ill. The other two thirds have various substance abuse or education problems. They tend to congregate in more liberal areas because that is where they are accepted. Rather than pushing them out of one area to another, we should agree there is a problem and provide resources to treat it. Many of the mentally ill homeless are veterans. People stand proud at the ball game with their hand over their heart. Then say these homeless are a problem. The homeless are mentally ill. Not bad people.
We’re about to enter a long period of austerity. Homelessness will be so widespread we’ll look back on today as the good old days. Our government over the last three years squandered tremendous wealth on corporate tax cuts. When we should have been rebuilding the infrastructure and paying down the debt.
The UP Police have been cut so low they can barely handle calls. Train burglaries out of hand. Company won’t hire any more either.
The camps are all former TEY cutoffs
and need a place to live.
Check out the LASU. All former Conductors.
Seriously
Move to Spokane lolol
@rgx. Of course it’s like a democratic run city. We’re a democratic country. We elect our government. Hence the term democracy.
@zbi UP is under no obligation to “work with” ICE, and there is no legal framework within which to work even if they wanted to; the executive orders being signed are really just MOUs (Memorandums of Understanding) addressed to directors within a few executive agencies. They don’t carry the force of law, and they don’t instruct anyone to do anything new.
You can Google them, download official copies, and read them for yourself.
I agree! It’s like a Democratic ran city
It's a professional courtesy from one manager to a former one.
Evidently your not paying attention to the news lately. ICE and UP police no longer work together to handle illegals. Local and county governments are told to leave the homeless alone and to their own devices. Our law enforcement can't touch homeless vagrants at Walmart for shoplifting.
Welcome to the New World Order.
You just better be prepared to defend yourself if a vagrant attacks you, your on your own, no cops.
UP doesn't own the land, they have rights to an easement, and only UP's improvements upon the property itself is theirs. Mostly if it's on public land, courts have ruled that homeless squatters can live and do whatever there as long as they're not disturbing the peace because it's their Constitutional right. Being homeless is not a crime.
@OP: What would you like UP to do? On top of everything else the track and bridge inspectors have to deal with, should “clearing homeless camps” really be added to the list?
Maybe you should volunteer to clear them yourself if it bothers you so much.