Andy,
I totally support your efforts, I believe it was your hotel Ive stayed at for a most relaxing week and thank you, I will most certainly return when I am back in that area. However with all due respect the crime in the USA is way out of control, the DR's level of crime is nothing in comparison, so how can you expect them to assist in problems here when they cant solve their own back in your homeland. Do you think the victims of both kidnappings would have been recovered as quickly and positively in the USA as they were here?
It has been reported more than once on this forum that a great deal of the serious crimes committed in the DR now are gang related, from a great many gang members that have been repatriated from the US, (sad to say there is another group being prepared for repatriation at the present time). So the US is actually, in a twisted kind of way, contributing to our present increased crime wave.