'I sleep with a gun under my bed'
YAKIMA, Wash. -- "Do you still feel like you're in danger?" said Reporter.
"I do. Every time I hear cars or car doors close, I wake up. I look out the windows," said David Morehouse.
David Morehouse can't forget what it felt like after someone broke into his home in October. He hasn't finished picking up the mess left behind. An army chest was one of the targets. It contained the only things he had that belonged to his Dad.
"You come in and you find a broken lock and right away your stomach sinks," said David.
The burglars took his medication, emptied his drawers and threw his boxes everywhere.
"Every time I found something that was missing, it made me more, more angry," said David.
David was far from alone. But, there seemed to be some improvement when it came to burglaries here in Yakima. KIMA dug up the numbers. Yakima saw a total of 637 burglaries in October, November and December of last year. Over the same time this year, the number dropped to 517. That's a 19 percent drop.
"During the holidays, you could make yourself a target if you post where you're going on social media," said Reporter.
Some of the burglary hot spots in Yakima were South 1st Avenue, Cornell Avenue, and South 7th Avenue. David said the experience changed him.
"I sleep with a gun under my bed,” said David. “I've never done that before."
Now, he’s planning to move somewhere else with the hope it won't happen again.
"I do. Every time I hear cars or car doors close, I wake up. I look out the windows," said David Morehouse.
David Morehouse can't forget what it felt like after someone broke into his home in October. He hasn't finished picking up the mess left behind. An army chest was one of the targets. It contained the only things he had that belonged to his Dad.
"You come in and you find a broken lock and right away your stomach sinks," said David.
The burglars took his medication, emptied his drawers and threw his boxes everywhere.
"Every time I found something that was missing, it made me more, more angry," said David.
David was far from alone. But, there seemed to be some improvement when it came to burglaries here in Yakima. KIMA dug up the numbers. Yakima saw a total of 637 burglaries in October, November and December of last year. Over the same time this year, the number dropped to 517. That's a 19 percent drop.
"During the holidays, you could make yourself a target if you post where you're going on social media," said Reporter.
Some of the burglary hot spots in Yakima were South 1st Avenue, Cornell Avenue, and South 7th Avenue. David said the experience changed him.
"I sleep with a gun under my bed,” said David. “I've never done that before."
Now, he’s planning to move somewhere else with the hope it won't happen again.
This comment has been deleted
 @Pat Garza Hilarious...Since it's coming from someone whom has continually harassed the tennats of her apartment building as well as the surrounding neighbors....She's a known WHACKJOB by YPD as well....A perfect example of the mentally running willy nilly in our society.....
 @Pat Garza Hilarious...Since it's coming from someone whom has continually harassed the tennants of her apartment building as well as the surrounding neighbors....She's a known WHACKJOB by YPD as well....A perfect example of the mentally running willy nilly in our society.....
 @Pat Garza Hilarious...Since it's coming from someone whom has continually harassed the tennats of her apartment building as well as the surrounding neighbors....She's a known WHACKJOB by YPD as well....A perfect example of the mentally running willy nilly in our society.....
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, NYC has a murder rate of 4.5 per 100,000, Chicago is about 5.4 per 100,000 or so. Yakima is 10 per 100,000. Almost all due to Mexican drug gangs. That's the main issue in the whole Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon rise in violent crime, even though both states as a whole are among the lowest in the country. Wipe out the gangs and you get rid of most of the problems. Unless the Federal government makes a concerted effort to work with state and local law enforcement to rid the country of this expanding problem things will only get worse.
I grew up in Yakima and it was a good town to live in at one point, That was 52 through 70, you never had to worry about someone breaking into your house. Something has gone terribly wrong in Yakima.