Shoot first

Ask questions later

In the DR the biggest mafia is the Police and the Military.

In America they have many things that the DR does not ........including warning shots

This story relates to the two appalling shootings in the Samana area ,,In the first incidence, the police were hiding in a very dark area and signaled for a young driver to stop and he indicated he would stop in a nearby lit area ,,the police shot him in the back of the head.The next incidence was the shooting of an 81 man also in a car .
this follows the recent shooting of a young passenger as his father was driving him a corner shop , on the son´s birthday , the shooting of the two suspects in the Nagua kidnapping case and the shooting and the deaths of two alleged thieves as they were handcuffed and on the ground, in the capital.
in la Romana at a corner where there are two discos, the brother of a los Toros player was murdered by a policeman for moving too slowly .
These are just some examples of how uneducated and callous the police force is and it is no small wonder that no one trusts the police force here.

Nothing like a trigger happy Dominican Cop; don't you love 'em?

My first experience with this kind of behavior was in San Juan PR in the 70s when a policeman was shooting at a streaker on the Condado ......We thought it was very amusing ....deadly force for a streaker ?...Latin America is the Wild West

blu,
was that the plastic cop?

How many times have we heard the same BS?

The police would probably perform their jobs a lot better if; A) They were paid a decent wage and didn't have to resort to crime to support their families, and B) If there were real punishment for them being caught committing criminal acts (like real prison time, instead of being "retired").

A statistic that I have quoted before:

In the US last year there were less than 500 people killed in "exchange of gunfire" situations. There are 300,000,000 people in the US.
In the DR last year there were more than 300 people killed in "Exchange of gunfire" situations.
There are 10,000,000 people here.

Blutarsky...Law enforcement in the U.S. does not use "warning shots"...if you're involved in a police action in the U.S. and hear a shot that does not kill you....it means the cop missed.

"Police Chief warns agents against “excesses” "

This is the best you can do? Put someone in jail.

What a bunch of ill educated savages. The man was 81.

ask a black man in US if he sees any difference between Dominican police and American police.

Etiennc01

If I were a Dominican or American COP, I would unload my clip on your piss poor sorry ass Haitian mud cookie eating, backward coconut tree climbing ass.

Heck I don't need to be a COP to do that ....Do I?

"A statistic that I have quoted before:

In the US last year there were less than 500 people killed in "exchange of gunfire" situations. There are 300,000,000 people in the US." ---Juanb

United States of America

Crimes committed with firearms, 1973-2007

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/tables/guncrimetab.cfm

Murders, robberies, and aggravated assaults in which firearms were used, numbers of offenses and rates per 100,000 population, 1973 to 2007

Total
firearm crimes Murders with firearms Robberies with firearms Aggravated
assaults with firearms
2007 385,178 127.7 11,512 3.8 190,514 63.2 183,153 60.7




Note: These numbers are estimates calculated from the data presented below
which are from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports as published annually in
Crime in the United States.

In the real world the police officers involved the murder of the two citizens would be tried for murder, conspiracy to murder and put to death, but that will not happen here because they did not murder anyone who mattered. It is both unfortunate but true. It appears that none of these citizens was involved in the political process nor does it seem that they were members of the elite so they therefore for fair game for these “criminals with badges.”
All that any of us know are the accounts we read in the newspaper and from what I read I am certain that the officers laid in wait for both these citizens and one could assume that it is a method of operation of the police force because in both cases the approach was the same. The Solution “so say police department management” is simply to stop and be robbed or drive on and be shot. It sounds like the tail wagging the dog.

The men of the police department are so out of control that there management cannot control them or worse in the alternative their bosses approve of the conduct.
This never would have happened in my country mainly because no policeman is going to stop or attempt to stop a citizen in dark area because all citizens in my country have a legal right to bear arms. No policemen in my country world take the risk of a random stop in the dark because he would have a real fear that the driver could be armed; but here there is no such presumption. The citizen therefore is fair game not only for every crook but also for the police.
Thomas Jefferson said; “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

“ Although he was not a founding father of this country his words are in fact true. As a life member of the National Rifle Association in the United States we are often criticized by well meaning but foolish people who believe that the right to bear arms is uncivilized and should be outlawed but these cops show me if no one else that this protection is still needed even here. A citizen with firearms is not an invitation to take over the government it is protection from government abuse.
Even with this protection we still have citizens murdered by police in my country but those police are put on trial for murder and if convicted sent to jail; they are not simply fired or as in most cases of abuse of power “transferred.”

I do not drive in this country yet but I know that one of the additional features that I will have installed in my vehicle is very large interior lights, so that if stopped anywhere I will light up the night. But ask yourself why a citizen should have to do such a thing in a democracy.

so you can see when you count the bribe money

In spite of everything else damn fine shooting.