You got it right dv8. My wife is Dominican and she just said the same thing. If you are a pain in the ass
criminal, there is a good chance that you got one of two warning shots in the leg or ass over the years. If you keep getting on the cops nerves, you will get your brains blown out all over the street.
Dude!! What kind of world is that???? If you get on the cops nerves they have a right to end a person's life. Who made a LOWEST form of law enforcement a "beat cop" the judge, jury, and executioner. In my dealing with cops in all sorts of places San Jose, NYC, DC, San Juan, Chicago, Atlanta, Panama City etc they are not that bright. When you allow a street cop to think that is when you have brains on the streets for a crime as PETTY as stealing something from a bakery NOT bank or banca but a bakery.
If some of you do not mind living in a place where the police can execute a man without due process I feel really really sorry for you. The LAST people in the world you will want to give this kind of power to is a police force in a 3rd world country. Some of these guys do not have money to buy a bag of Doritos, yet they have the power and the support of so many people in DR for killing a man in the streets when deadly force is not needed.
Homes look like fortresses and army bases, cars and suv's look like blacked out drug dealers cars, shotguns used to guard ATMs, GUNS everywhere, strife and envy replaces love and respect, etc.
If this happened in Oklahoma this would be terrible but in Santo Domingo it is as normal as shouting down the power when a big storm is coming.