I don't believe you were directly asked for your private, confidential, highly top secret connections.............
B in Santiago
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Just got robbed by Police...
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I don't believe you were directly asked for your private, confidential, highly top secret connections.............
B in Santiago
ANYTIME you have negative contact with law enforcement in the Dominican Republic you should contact your embassy and make a report. The PN is not considered a professional law enforcement agency by international standards and has a long history of curruption and human rights abuses.
The U.S. Embassy is very helpful with these matters and can best advise with what steps to take to both protect you and to a peruse formal complaint against the officers.
The U.S. Embassy is very helpful with these matters and can best advise with what steps to take to both protect you and to a peruse formal complaint against the officers.
You don't have to share your connections you can share the story. The member can private message you with additional information. There are just too many complaints of attacks on tourists for many of them not to be true.
I have long blamed the Dominicans who live outside the country for not bringing pressure to bear on the DR Government and other government concerning the condition of their families and other Dominicans especially with respect to the laws. They just seem to want to escape DR and come back to be treated as God's and Goddesses like they have accomplished something great.
The crisis on the US border is similar. There is a whole bunch of Latinos who are pressing the American government to treat these people humanely, while they put little to no pressure on the government where these people originate from. They want to sit on the a***s and have America and American do everything. America is not the problem the Latinos who do nothing about the situation in their countries are the problem.
With respect to DR, I know we are strangers in this country, but for us to sit by and say it's their culture to attack tourists is not acceptable. If this behavior is not abated then every effort should be made to inform possible tourists, that they are taking their lives in their hands by visiting here. Before that step is taken every effort should be made to those of influence in the DR government to change this behavior.
In any case he should report the forced removal of his wallet and knife ... even by saying he was mugged on the street (in case he will be afraid or advised not to report that police did this). Again as AE said this may get to bite him in his lower back later on if unreported. In the worst case scenario some ladron took it from him and he gets his paperwork so if in the future something happens, he is covered.
Man, if they can get away with it, most definitely. if they can, they will escort you to your residence (hotel) and extort more money if they can. You see them drinking with their uniforms on, all the time. You think they don't get ornery and their testosterone elevated, then go out to mess with "blanquitos"?
This is a weird story. Cops will try to jack you up but slapping a foreigner and then not hauling his a$$ to jail? C'mon!!
"I again stayed calm and resisted all my training to disarm both of them"
Maybe you should get your money back because good training will provide you with the ways to disarm someone with physical force as well as with verbal one.
Again this is weird :ermm:
"I again stayed calm and resisted all my training to disarm both of them"
Maybe you should get your money back because good training will provide you with the ways to disarm someone with physical force as well as with verbal one.
Again this is weird :ermm:
The "ONLY" thing here that makes ANY Sense is what "XO" posted!
I first came here in 1986, and I have NEVER heard ANYTHING even remotely resembling this "STORY"!!!!!!
They used to ask for a "Tip" but NEVER any violence.
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I first came here in 1986, and I have NEVER heard ANYTHING even remotely resembling this "STORY"!!!!!!
They used to ask for a "Tip" but NEVER any violence.
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No missing information. After they were done with me than ran off after someone who they suspected of selling or having drugs. thats when the prostitutes that they were previously harassing told me to get out of there quickly.
They were not hard slaps. They were the kind meant to belittle you. Like when a southern cop calls a black man "boy".
I have lox. So everyone ignorantly thinks that I am Jamaican. Their second thought is that I am Haitian, and we all know how they feel about Haitians here. He stopped messing with my hair and slapping me when he saw the paperwork I keep in my scooter. On there was a copy of my american passport. That's when he got on with the business of taking my ****.
So the guy who took my knife, I couldn't understand his spanish because he was speaking really low and fast. Also, I could tell he was uneducated because he was mostly using slang. I learned spanish in Spain and Mexico so I'm not good with the Dominican slang.
The ONLY reason I was calm was because I know they really wanted my scooter. I was not close enough to the malecon to feel safe and it was night. I wanted to de-escalate the situation because I didn't want them to try to take my scooter. That was my limit. Had they tried, then I would have resisted.
PS - they were real PN because they left me to go shake down so drug activity. plus they had the guns, crappy bullet proof vests, uniforms and hats and boots. Plus the working girls seemed to know them.
Where you in a really shady area? Where you drunk? Did you talk back to them?
I would not go to the police without a lawyer and some locals to go with you that you trust!
Just because they had uniforms and guns does not mean they are real police!
I would not go to the police without a lawyer and some locals to go with you that you trust!
Just because they had uniforms and guns does not mean they are real police!
Locks as in dreadlocks
@the OP: i suspect for a dominican lox=locks=same thing=jamaicano
For some of us, lox=smoked salmon :bunny:
I wasn't drunk as I was on my way to the bars to get drunk. Didn't talk back like I said I had heard stories of PN taking peoples cars and motos so I wanted to avoid that. All in all they got 3,100 pesos and my knife. I tried calling the number on the US embassy website for victims of crime(U.S. Citizen Victims of Crime | Embassy of the United States Dominican Republic) and they told me to go to the police national main building. I am planning on going with my cousin, but I am thinking that they are gonna say the same thing as many of you, that they were not real police.
My question is: If they have people posing as PN what am I supposed to do when/if this happens again. Resist, run, What???
~ honestly I came here for the civil liberties. This is ridiculous
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