The locals will happily guide you into a false sense of security, for sure. Then........................ I promise you that if you are looking at this like you are, then you will not ladt 2 seconds. You say you are not comparing to West Africa, but you are in presuming the people have the moral standards you may have experirnced in WA. Doms don't have moral code, at all.
Ok ye sure i have very little experience to what life is like in the Dr and i have no problem admitting that but apart from just giving up you would say any foreigner should avoid the local people because they have no morals? I've met nice and nasty people from all over the world and i would think the DR is no different, i'm sure your right in a lot of cases and i will definitely keep that in mined but it did sound like a bit of a generalisation of the Dominican people.
Thanks for warning