Last January, I posted on the endemic burglaries of freight trains in East Los Angeles. A huge fraction of merchandise imported from China comes in through the port of Los Angeles/Long Beach and then is loaded onto trucks or trains. At a slow point in the tracks, the goods get looted in vast numbers.
There was some discussion in the comments of the likely ethnicity of the crooks.
Today, the LAPD announced the arrest of 22 train burglars. Here’s a photo of half of them:
