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In reply to the discussion: Truck Drivers Say They Won't Deliver To Cities with Defunded Police Departments [View all]ck4829
(35,069 posts)3. Here might be another reason why...
The FBI suspects that serial killers working as long-haul truckers are responsible for the slayings of hundreds of prostitutes, hitchhikers and stranded motorists whose bodies have been dumped near highways over the last three decades.
Federal authorities first made the connection about five years ago while helping police link a trucker to a string of unsolved killings along Interstate 40 in Oklahoma and several other states. After that, the FBI launched the Highway Serial Killings Initiative to track suspicious slayings and suspect truckers.
A computer database maintained by the FBI has grown to include information on more than 500 female crime victims, most of whom were killed and their bodies discarded at truck stops, motels and other locations along popular trucking routes crisscrossing the U.S.
The database also has information on scores of truckers whove been charged with killings or rapes committed near highways or who are suspects in such crimes, officials said. Authorities said they do not have statistics on whether driving trucks ranks high on the list of occupations of known serial killers.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-apr-05-me-serialkillers5-story.html
Federal authorities first made the connection about five years ago while helping police link a trucker to a string of unsolved killings along Interstate 40 in Oklahoma and several other states. After that, the FBI launched the Highway Serial Killings Initiative to track suspicious slayings and suspect truckers.
A computer database maintained by the FBI has grown to include information on more than 500 female crime victims, most of whom were killed and their bodies discarded at truck stops, motels and other locations along popular trucking routes crisscrossing the U.S.
The database also has information on scores of truckers whove been charged with killings or rapes committed near highways or who are suspects in such crimes, officials said. Authorities said they do not have statistics on whether driving trucks ranks high on the list of occupations of known serial killers.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-apr-05-me-serialkillers5-story.html
Something would replace a disbanded or defunded police department... maybe something that would actually be interested in these deaths and disappearances of these "unwanted people".
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Truck Drivers Say They Won't Deliver To Cities with Defunded Police Departments [View all]
Odoreida
Jun 2020
OP
Fire them instantly...many waiting to take their places. This is sad because I am
Eliot Rosewater
Jun 2020
#1
I'm not sure if having critical thinking skills should be a requirement to hold a job as a trucker.
totodeinhere
Jun 2020
#35
"I'm not sure if having critical thinking skills should be a requirement"
A HERETIC I AM
Jun 2020
#56
They either do the job or not...regardless of their opinions, we can not allow brutal police
Demsrule86
Jun 2020
#46
Why do I get the impression that truckers listen to nothing but right wing talk radio?
tenderfoot
Jun 2020
#4
And some wonder why flyover country votes against their own best interests...
tenderfoot
Jun 2020
#18
No, I think that a lot of them listen to country and western music radio as well.
totodeinhere
Jun 2020
#36
I'm no trucker, but I would think if you rejected a delivery, your company would fire you.
panader0
Jun 2020
#30
As an OTR driver with better than 30 years behind the wheel, here's my take;
A HERETIC I AM
Jun 2020
#49
Is anyone making deliveries into the Seattle autonomous sovereign protest zone?
JustABozoOnThisBus
Jun 2020
#53
Easy enough. Just ignore them and get supplies by rail and short-haul trucking. nt
Blue_true
Jun 2020
#74