Santo Domingo.- The lack of change in the National Police and of its coordination with the Interior and Police Ministry were cited by security policies consultant Eduardo A. Gamarra as some of the main factors which doomed the “Barrio Seguro” (Safe District) program to failure.
The analyst, who designed the Democratic Security Plan (PSD) at president Leonel Fernandez’s request in 2004, made the revelation during his testimony on violence and crime in Dominican Republic and the Caribbean before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on December 15.
He said the program, begun in 2005, has failed in its attempt to curtail crime in the Dominican barrios. He said a significant internal change of the National Police hasn’t been possible, for reasons ranging from corruption to a severe lack of training and material resources.
Quoted by news source hoy.com.do, Gamarra, research and analysis director of the company Newlink Research, said the Police resists change.
The analyst also said those in charge of the PSD have politized the program to reach a better political stature, for which de plan didn’t achieve its goal, adding that the little economic support from international organizations.
Gamarra included the United States embassy as also contributing to the program’s failure, calling its contribution limited in amount and in reach, even to the point of contradicting the local efforts. “Sometimes, officials of the Embassy saw president Fernandez’s initiatives against crime in the country with great skepticism and distrust.”
Written by: josean, 4 Jan 2012 6:14 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Here free advice:
The reason the plan failed is because you are treating the symptom not the disease.
EDUCATION is best anti-crime program you can invest in. It will not eliminate crime because there are other societal factors that impact as well, but it is the fundamental starting point to begin addressing the problem to see really long term results.
Written by: josean, 4 Jan 2012 6:24 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
The first crime that has to be attacked is the CRIME of not funding education with the 4% that is mandated by the constitution!
When you have criminal in the National Palace what example are you setting for the rest of the population?
From: United States, Brooklyn
If they resisits change FIRE'EM!
Written by: okian, 4 Jan 2012 7:41 AM
From: United States
It's hard when you put a corrupt agency in charge.
Written by: RoyStone, 4 Jan 2012 9:16 AM
From: Australia
Big surprise, crime in the barios is the fault of foreigners:
"little economic support from international organizations."
“Sometimes, officials of the [USA] Embassy saw president Fernandez’s initiatives against crime in the country with great skepticism and distrust.”
I wonder why. Duh!
It seems the Dominican Republic has avoided most of Haiti's Cholera epidemic, but has a severe case of blame-projection syndrome. When is this country going to take responsibility for it's self-inflicted maladies?
From: United States, Yonkers, NY
Please oh pretty please put me in charge of the police. Mano dura.
Written by: josean, 5 Jan 2012 3:29 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
dup.
Written by: josean, 5 Jan 2012 3:29 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
As Paul Harvey would say “You know what the news is, in a minute, you're going to hear ... the rest of the story:”
"Gamarra said that by 2011, "the Dominican Republic appeared to have fulfilled the prediction by some analysts in the 1990s that it was becoming the command and control center of the Caribbean drug trafficking industry".
"According to Gamarra in recent years the surge of drug trafficking towards and from the Dominican Republic and the emergence of internal micro trafficking have become complex, expansive and harmful phenomena for Dominican society. "Given their importance, both constitute a development engine for many sectors of the urban and rural economy of the country. Progressively and owing to its resilience, the ties of this industry strengthen an integrated vertical and horizontal transnational criminal structure that involves a network of social and political organizations.
Continued:
Written by: josean, 5 Jan 2012 3:30 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
hese dynamics affect the quality of life in the Dominican Republic and they undermine trust in institutions and democratic governance"... he stated in the 15 December hearing."
www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/the-us-caribbean-shared-security-partnership-responding-to-the-growth-of-trafficking-and-narcotics-in-the-caribbean
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Eduardo_Gamarra_testimony.pdf
Written by: josean, 5 Jan 2012 4:13 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Here is another example of the faliure:
Let’s see what the new capped crusader prosecutor the Bat-woman from Santiago and Lie-onel’s new Kangaroo Court do about this;
“Professor demands Justice against those who attempted to assassinate his son”
"Three years ago that Miguel Abraham was shot and his attackers are still in a special prison”
"The Professor of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) appealed to the new judges of the Supreme Court of Justice and recalled that just a day like today, January 4, three years ago, his son Miguel Abraham Olivero was shot and beaten savagely by the police officers Julio Soto Reyes and Carlos Miguel Cuevas Pérez that they took him out of a birthday in the parking lot of his building and took him to an abandoned lot to kill him."
http://www.microsofttranslator.co....-los-que-intentaron-asesinar-a-suWritten by: matador, 5 Jan 2012 6:28 AM
From: United States, www.brugal-ron.com/home.php
The reason the plan failed is because the Goverment and it aagency are a bunch of corrupt'''' do you want to clean up the street in DR here is what you have to do LF & your bunch of clowns,
Go back to the 1960s and put the millitary & police on the street to work together 24 hours a day, 7 days a week just like Trujillo did'' and Jail those who become corrupt, i m mean Prosecute them no just fire them.
I bet with in 3 month DR will be a different country where you be able o sleep on the streets once again.
From: United States
ROYsTONE SAYS
It seems the Dominican Republic has avoided most of Haiti's Cholera epidemic, but has a severe case of blame-projection syndrome. When is this country going to take responsibility for it's self-inflicted maladies?
NEVER. there is a social dynamic that plagues the citizenry here. poster Escott dubs it the Odderguy Syndrome. nevr take the blame, nor the responsibility, for anything detrimental that you do. always look to blame it on someone else. that way, you can continue with business as usual, since nobody can point a finger at you.
Written by: RoyStone, 5 Jan 2012 10:28 AM
From: Australia
Dready is left-wing and I'm right-wing yet we seem to have bi-partisan agreement on this, so we must be correct. However I am more of an optimist, still I must admit the pessimists have a stronger case.
From: United States
i am only pessimistic about tthe things that i believe cannot change, nor be changed.
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
I wonder how much money did it cost top th eDomincan tax payers??!!!
I mean, why to payt this foreingner millions of dollars when all it takes is build few jails in two 3 major cities to put criminals in control??!!!!!
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
ASll is needed to control crime in barrios is make few jails, each in mate to build few coberstone to be used pave the barrios and build the Border wall. They pay for their own food.
They'll think think twice before comitting a crime. Dominicans are not stupid...
Written by: josean, 5 Jan 2012 7:45 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Apparently the new Supreme Corrupt Court Judges also feel the plan has failed.
These purple punks are afraid to live in the NARCOLANDIA they created without a personal army!
“One judges submits payment request for 17 bodyguards and another for 7”
“Previous judges just had one police officer assigned for their security”
"SANTO DOMINGO (Dominican Republic)-The low budget available added to the fact that administrative officers of the Supreme Court of Justice have never received salary adjustments are combining to alter the moral in the judiciary, since two new judges have submitted 24 officers of their personal security for payment purposes."
http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=113828
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Here free advice:
The reason the plan failed is because you are treating the symptom not the disease.
EDUCATION is best anti-crime program you can invest in. It will not eliminate crime because there are other societal factors that impact as well, but it is the fundamental starting point to begin addressing the problem to see really long term results.
The first crime that has to be attacked is the CRIME of not funding education with the 4% that is mandated by the constitution!
When you have criminal in the National Palace what example are you setting for the rest of the population?
If they resisits change FIRE'EM!
"little economic support from international organizations."
“Sometimes, officials of the [USA] Embassy saw president Fernandez’s initiatives against crime in the country with great skepticism and distrust.”
I wonder why. Duh!
It seems the Dominican Republic has avoided most of Haiti's Cholera epidemic, but has a severe case of blame-projection syndrome. When is this country going to take responsibility for it's self-inflicted maladies?
As Paul Harvey would say “You know what the news is, in a minute, you're going to hear ... the rest of the story:”
"Gamarra said that by 2011, "the Dominican Republic appeared to have fulfilled the prediction by some analysts in the 1990s that it was becoming the command and control center of the Caribbean drug trafficking industry".
"According to Gamarra in recent years the surge of drug trafficking towards and from the Dominican Republic and the emergence of internal micro trafficking have become complex, expansive and harmful phenomena for Dominican society. "Given their importance, both constitute a development engine for many sectors of the urban and rural economy of the country. Progressively and owing to its resilience, the ties of this industry strengthen an integrated vertical and horizontal transnational criminal structure that involves a network of social and political organizations.
Continued:
hese dynamics affect the quality of life in the Dominican Republic and they undermine trust in institutions and democratic governance"... he stated in the 15 December hearing."
www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/the-us-caribbean-shared-security-partnership-responding-to-the-growth-of-trafficking-and-narcotics-in-the-caribbean
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Eduardo_Gamarra_testimony.pdf
Here is another example of the faliure:
Let’s see what the new capped crusader prosecutor the Bat-woman from Santiago and Lie-onel’s new Kangaroo Court do about this;
“Professor demands Justice against those who attempted to assassinate his son”
"Three years ago that Miguel Abraham was shot and his attackers are still in a special prison”
"The Professor of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) appealed to the new judges of the Supreme Court of Justice and recalled that just a day like today, January 4, three years ago, his son Miguel Abraham Olivero was shot and beaten savagely by the police officers Julio Soto Reyes and Carlos Miguel Cuevas Pérez that they took him out of a birthday in the parking lot of his building and took him to an abandoned lot to kill him."
http://www.microsofttranslator.co....-los-que-intentaron-asesinar-a-su
The reason the plan failed is because the Goverment and it aagency are a bunch of corrupt'''' do you want to clean up the street in DR here is what you have to do LF & your bunch of clowns,
Go back to the 1960s and put the millitary & police on the street to work together 24 hours a day, 7 days a week just like Trujillo did'' and Jail those who become corrupt, i m mean Prosecute them no just fire them.
I bet with in 3 month DR will be a different country where you be able o sleep on the streets once again.
It seems the Dominican Republic has avoided most of Haiti's Cholera epidemic, but has a severe case of blame-projection syndrome. When is this country going to take responsibility for it's self-inflicted maladies?
NEVER. there is a social dynamic that plagues the citizenry here. poster Escott dubs it the Odderguy Syndrome. nevr take the blame, nor the responsibility, for anything detrimental that you do. always look to blame it on someone else. that way, you can continue with business as usual, since nobody can point a finger at you.
I mean, why to payt this foreingner millions of dollars when all it takes is build few jails in two 3 major cities to put criminals in control??!!!!!
They'll think think twice before comitting a crime. Dominicans are not stupid...
Apparently the new Supreme Corrupt Court Judges also feel the plan has failed.
These purple punks are afraid to live in the NARCOLANDIA they created without a personal army!
“One judges submits payment request for 17 bodyguards and another for 7”
“Previous judges just had one police officer assigned for their security”
"SANTO DOMINGO (Dominican Republic)-The low budget available added to the fact that administrative officers of the Supreme Court of Justice have never received salary adjustments are combining to alter the moral in the judiciary, since two new judges have submitted 24 officers of their personal security for payment purposes."
http://www.7dias.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=113828