There were actually a few news articles in Dominican Today (Hoy) about this in the past few weeks. The gist of it is that, since there is no capital punishment in the new constitution, the chief of police should tell officers not to shoot people who refuse to stop at police commands.
I'm waiting to see how all that works out, but in the meantime, I would highly caution AGAINST not stopping.
Remember: your friends and family can bail you out of jail, but no amount of money is going to pay your way out of the cemetery.
why should the Chief of Police advice such??
we are talking about full checkpoints where PN and Military stop the traffic on the Road, we usually do not know at the first moment why they put that roadblock on, it may be for a simple check for illegal weapons, and it may be because they search for a specific vehicle or specific wanted Persons in that area, driving through brings up the impression that you may be the driver of the wanted person, they would never catch anybody if they would not shoot on the stupids who think a roadblock is nothing for their bigmouth.
I would guess to try to drive around a Police or Military Roadblock in the USA would relult in shots on the tires, I know in Germany your Car would be most likely ''not repairable'' afterwards.
on a real checkpoint, where many uniforms and weapons stop the Traffic, stop your darn Car and present them the papers they ask for.
if you don't have that documentation means anyways that you are exactly what they are looking for, a illegal on the road.
and a new feature:
yesterday at a rodblock here the foreign drivers who hold a Gun Permit been also asked for their Residency Card, for a foreigner the Cedula is worthless in case of the legitimation of the Gun Permits, the same for the Dominican Drivers License.
never heard that before, been new to me.
Mike
