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The island on a whole is spiraling out of control in terms of violence gangs drugs and corruption. You now have the Mexican Colombian cartels here as well as the Puerto rican dons the Italian mafia and another big mafia the Russians. On top of that you have the Domincans being deported from the USA bringing the Urban American Gang Culture here to the DR and finding out that here its way easier to be a drug dealer or chapo than legal work. The Domincan Reopublic is one bog hub for Narco human trafficking whyy ???? Because of the obscene in your face corruption from the basic police officer right on through to politicians. Look at Figeroa for instance he had everyone on his pay roll .
Yes the are making big drug busts really these are a drop in the bucket compared to the drugs that are coming through here. They have to male it look like they are trying to do something so they act on some busts and say see we are doing our job. Unfortunately along with this comes the mentality of gangs and more and morew people are getting killed mopre youpth want to be gangsters and arent scared to proove themselves as really the life of a gangster with money and power sure beats making 5000 peso a month busting your butt!
Unfortunately I dont not see this problem going away as too many people are making money out of the deal also if the Government decides to delcare war on drugs likein Mexico you will see the violence ramp up 10 fold!!!!
In my opinion the DR should take a look at other means of combating this like dimcrimilization or legalization I know alot of you do not agree with this but remember when the USA made liqour illeagal it opened up all sorts pof blackmarket doors for the mafia and other criminal organizations to profit from the sale of liqour. it has been proven that prophibition does not work and that regulation and taxtation are the better ways. But like many things the DR does not want to admit there is a real problem here or really address it and according to Pichardo if the police had better cars and motorcycles they would be better police officers LOL. Seriously the PN is the biggest gang in this country and the government really has no control over them .