Puerto Plata: The police state!

[cobraboy]

Originally Posted by Vacara

DominicanBilly you first posted this;




Then later you posted this:



So let me ask you; do you still consider them inept?

I have a friend who was a colonel a few years back and he told me that "redadas" (rounding up people at ramdom) is a very useful tool for gathering money, literally they get tens of thousands of pesos for each "redada". This people are far from inept.

Non sequitor.

"Inept" in doing the job they are chartered to do and being "corrupt" are two entirely different issues.

Criminality and bureaucratic inefficiency may look the same, but they are not.

[Lambada]

Originally Posted by tflea

No surprise there.

The Colonel might be out of custody but he's not off the hook; the formal plaint has been presented. Next step is a hearing to decide if they will all be prosecuted:

FISCALIA PRESENTA FORMAL QUERELLA CONTRA EX OFICIALES, CLASES Y ALISTADOS POR ASESINATO DE TRES JOVENES

[Lambada]

Preliminary hearing against the 20+ PP police accused of protecting narcotraffickers has gone to Sept. 18th.
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[POPNYChic]

and thiiiiis is why i had posted that first thread about needing to watch out for police bribery. its certainly all too common...especially if they look at you and think you have money...

[Lambada]

Not the 20+ police case but one we have referred to many times on DR1 - the driveby killing on the main road back in 2006 of fish shop owner Aladino Acevedo and his architect Engel Sarita. Finally..........3 months remand in custody for an alleged perp. Who just happened to be the Inspector in the Robbery Dept. of Policia Nacional. The info appears to have come from an inmate doing 4 years in SFM jail for narcotrafficking.

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[waytogo]

The way logic is here, why didn't they just put the plastic chairs in handcuffs and take them to jail? If the chairs didn't post bail they could be sold for a profit. Seems like the logical thing to do here.

[JDJones]

Originally Posted by waytogo

The way logic is here, why didn't they just put the plastic chairs in handcuffs and take them to jail? If the chairs didn't post bail they could be sold for a profit. Seems like the logical thing to do here.

Not as far off as you think.

Many times I have heard the police themselves use the term "esta preso"(under arrest) for the equipment they confiscate, rather than say it's embargoed.