Why You Can't Have Nice Things In Yakima Options

[Coomer]

Recently, there's been a lot in the local news about car theft. A recent high-speed pursuit resulting from the suspect stealing a car ended up killing two innocent people (one of the two injured in that article later died at the hospital) when the suspect crashed into their car at high speed. The thief wasn't hurt too badly, and now faces second degree murder charges.

Yakima already ranks among the top ten cities in the nation with the highest car theft problems (According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, Yakima had more than 2,000 cars stolen last year alone,) and there are logical reasons why.

In Yakima, car thieves don't get prison time until their seventh offense! Worst of all, this information was published in our local newspaper. I can just see people reading that and then choosing to steal a car to try to make some quick cash..."I mean, there's no real consequences, so I might as well, right?"

What's even worse is that our city doesn't seem to care about auto theft. A friend of the family recently went on a ride-along with a Yakima Police Department officer. The officer caught and arrested a seventeen-year-old kid who was trying to steal a car. He tried dropping the thief off at four different jails and juvenile detention centers, but all four of them wouldn't house the kid for various reasons, mostly because Yakima needs the jail space for the ridiculously high numbers of murder/assault/rape/drug-trafficking suspects.

So the cop let the kid go. A few hours later, the officer got a call about a car theft and hurried to the call to investigate. It was the same kid trying to steal another car.

Absolutely ludicrous.

That's the only way I can really describe the actions of city officials and police officers in Yakima.

That, combined with the corrupt cops, very high crime rate, and immense drug problems, is why I don't live there anymore, and why my parents are moving once my brother is out of school. It's just ridiculous, and it angers me to no end.

I dunno. Perhaps more innocent people just need to die before the city takes action against car thieves.

[Coomer]

John,
My complaint isn't just with the cops in this post...it's with the whole city, which I mention in my post. You can clearly tell if you read through my post again that I'm not targeting just cops.

And one of my friends from high school was murdered earlier this year...a former friend of mine was raped...one of my brother's friends was brutally assaulted for no reason. Sure, I worry about that stuff too. But I still worry about property theft, and I don't know anyone who isn't concerned. Are you telling me that you wouldn't care at all if someone stole your car or broke into your house and robbed you?

I'm in no way saying that it's more important to target auto theft than violent crimes, but the city needs to do something to change laws and such. Yakima's priorities are so backwards...it's ridiculous.

[Shocker]

John,
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. Are you telling me that you wouldn't care at all if someone stole your car or broke into your house and robbed you?

John dares people to break into his house.. he really want to use that XD-9 on somthing other than paper.