“Where are the FBI”
From what I have read train tracks are a different jurisdiction and police etc are not allowed to intervene.
It is the responsibility of the train companies to protect their own property.
And if they do, with appropriate force, they’ll be sued into bankruptcy.
You’re probably correct, I just figured it was interstate commerce being prohibited by thieves and they would have an interest.
Theft from interstate shipments is a federal crime. Perhaps the locals have no authority on railroad property, unless invited, but the law is quite clear about the thefts being a federal jurisdiction. The statute is quite broad to encumber possession of property taken from interstate shipment.
......From what I have read train tracks are a different jurisdiction and police etc are not allowed to intervene.
It is the responsibility of the train companies to protect their own property......
My understanding is that it is a federal crime to “trespass” on RR property. To be allowed on such property one must normally go through a “RR sponsored safety training program” and pass the test and be given a card you must carry on you at all times you have permission to be on the right of way. Yes, I once had to go through the training many years ago.
Also certain crimes on RR property are federal crimes. Recently in WA State two women who had damaged some road crossing signs to try to cause accidents were charged and convicted of federal crimes.
I do know that long ago, a RR employee threatened to call the local City Police on me as I was doing survey work from the fog line shoulder of a public road for the Public Works Department. I asked them to please do call the local police as I wanted to Supervisors involved in interfering with my work for the city.
I think that who has jurisdiction is complicated. Actually, I think this is one of those situations where no one wants to get involved for fear of having protesters claiming that the police or railroad are racists.
Where’s Jim Hardie, from the tv slow Tales of Wells Fargo.