Posted by wshsndrms at 12/27/09 09:42AM        Post ID#: #21553

wow...a shooting here and it wasn't gang related...sorry guess you have nothing to comment about on this story nick~

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Posted by johnny99 at 12/27/09 09:58AM        Post ID#: #21555

@wshsndrms:

SHHHH! Keep quiet and we can hear the crickets again...

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Posted by hopezzz at 12/27/09 10:53AM        Post ID#: #21557

I hope this isn't going to be a story about a motel getting shut down and everybody gets another room somewhere except the people with kids.

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Posted by Nick at 12/27/09 11:57AM        Post ID#: #21560

Sorry, Wishes - I am just late. What makes you think I comment only on gang shootings? Just because 99 out of the last 100 or so shootings in the last year are related to gangs in this area, doesn't mean they are the only ones. As I have often stated, I am about law and order, not just gangs and illegal aliens.

Hopezzz, you can probably add this place to the upcoming list, down a few notches from the top, where the Tourist sits, but not very far. The entire area of N. 1st Street is a declining neighborhood and a disgrace as an entrance to our city. Maybe the businesses up there can get on the bandwagon and invest a little in their future by cleaning up.

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Posted by hopezzz at 12/27/09 12:28PM        Post ID#: #21561

Nick
The only thing I meant was that on the last story of the Tourist getting shut down, somebody commented that there was a picture of a family out in the snow. The article said people had been moved to other rooms, but the family was just sitting in the snow with a beautiful, well cared for toddler looking kind of lost and sad with their stuff. It just seems that if any body should get a roof over their head with these code inforcement issues, it should be people with children.

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Posted by ChrisR at 12/27/09 01:04PM        Post ID#: #21562

This is another one of the roach hotels that needs to be closed down. A shooting there is no surprise. Another name for that establishment is a flop house, Yakima has lots of those. They are not only located on 1st but also on Fruitvale.
Interesting thing is..did you know the state has a contract with those dumps on Fruitvale? Most of those hotels have cons living in them because they needed to be monitored but needed an address to call home when they left the big hooscal.

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Posted by hopezzz at 12/27/09 02:36PM        Post ID#: #21565

My only thing is that no families should be thrown out on the street when the city closes one of these down. Good people can wind up in them out of desperation. All it takes is one landlord to give somebody a bad name. Then people are stuck temporarily . The city should tell them they can't take money from people with kids when they're under investigation. Like, some good people can't live on the eastside because the tweakers go crazy. And the last story about the Tourist just showed this man with a nice looking child and it seemed to imply that they were out in the cold. If this is on a list like Nick said then something should be done so people are notified and don't give them rent money. It would be a simple matter for the city to do this in a manner that doesn't toss people into the snow.

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Posted by huh at 12/28/09 08:02AM        Post ID#: #21582

Hope, I beleive that those poeople pictured that you are commenting on lived at the apartments across from the
Tourist. They did not have to move.

Ok, so now we moved the problem from the Yakima/ 1st street area to the north first street area. Where will it migrate to next? We have to address a correction to the problem, not just shove it around.

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Posted by REVELATORY at 12/28/09 08:26AM        Post ID#: #21586

I think we get drug addicts here from different parts of the state. A certain percentage of them more than likely stay here in Yakima. I'm not sure, but I think we get sex offenders sent here also. Combine that with migrant workers coming here and this sort of housing is needed. As long as it's needed it's viable housing. Closing it down will make the homeless rate go way up. In addtion just one conflict with a landlord can practically ruin families. That could mean just asking a landlord to repair something and he says "get-out". And don't think it doesn't happen, because it does. The landlord association is really bad fot this. Maybe that's why housing that looks good can be filled with dope dealers, etc. The landlord association is catiwhompas. Really good people can be stuck having to grab one of these flea bag rooms. We want good people here in Yakima and these predatory landlords who get a kick out of ruining people need to be stopped. Then these motels would dry up. Anybody that doesn't know about the landlord problem in Yakima, needs to wise up. I've heard of landlords getting (illegal) restraining orders on someone because they asked for something to be repaired. Didn't ask in a nice voice because they'd been asking for one year. Can you imagine a judge actually granting one of these? The people had kids, too. They had no where else to go, so they just ignored the order, and nothing happened, but a judge doing this?
Another reason these things thrive is because of all the drug addicts roaming free that should be in prison. One of the treatment centers is so desperate to claim a high success rate that they keep erasing their clients criminal records. That drug court stuff is only supposed to be for the first possession arrest. Not for the 7th or 8th or 9th! Coincidently, the same judge involved in this is the judge who issued the illegal restraining order mentioned above. A lot of these people should be locked up. And when they find out that they can do practically anything they want, then they like to cause trouble. Could be why there's violence here. You can blame it on the motels, but I see the problem coming from much higher people.

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Posted by huh at 12/28/09 10:23AM        Post ID#: #21597

REV,

If what you say is true and factual, it would be a very good investigative report for a yound enterprising journalist to follow up on. Otherwise it is just one more comment without a shred of fact to back it up.

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Posted by REVELATORY at 12/28/09 11:46AM        Post ID#: #21601

huh

Look at the Tourist article, those people lived there and got thrown out with kids. Probably the dopers got rooms. If they were going to tear this down and put up housing for decent people than I'd say, go for it. But the chances are drug housing would go up.


I think that's what the problem is with the Chief and all his men. The Chief is telling these officers that they have to take testimony from dopers who the cops know are scum and are trying to get innocent people arrested. I feel sorry for people with kids that end up at these motels. They are probably all stressed out already and they don't know that the room next door has 8 dopers in it. If they even raise their voice at their kids, the dopers, like trained animals will immediately call the police.

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Posted by hopezzz at 12/28/09 12:11PM        Post ID#: #21603

I knew three drug addicts who got their criminal records erased. I knew another that got dentures and bacame a drug counselor at YVCC. He had been an addict all his life, laying out in the alley smelling like wine and pot. He locked good with those dentures after seeing those rotten teeth. A knew a heroin addict who didn't have to get dentures. She was such a good setup artist. She would look for people with kids that played with her grand daughter. Then she would knock on their door and ask to use their bathroom. Unbeknownst to the people, she would leave lots of pot scattered on the toilet tank. She must have been an all star because she didn't have to get dentures, she got full implants , which normally cost $2000 per tooth. These poor peopole with kids that make the mistake of moving to these motels or the southeast or Fruitvale, or, gee, it's getting to be just about everywhere. And they say drug court is working, working for who?

It would be nice to get proof, like huh says, only they won't give it to you.

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Posted by readerone at 12/28/09 02:09PM        Post ID#: #21621

That's the way it works in a drug informant world. If it gets out of hand, then the druggies outnumber the regulars and they get desperate. Even cause disturbances in the hopes of bagging somebody.

It sounds like maybe drug court has outlived it's usefullness in Yakima. It was good at the beginning when it was legit, but nobody would seriously say it was legit now. This craziness is whats behind these motel things. And they probably are trying to get money for drug housing. It's all about greed, not people.

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Posted by Aurelius at 12/28/09 03:57PM        Post ID#: #21628

The shooters name was released -Tru story- Its ("63 year old man") Thats his name. I might know him. Yeah!

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