Director PN complains that justice releases offenders who go and repeat the crime. The director of the National Police, Ney Aldrin Bautista, criticized the way in which the country’s judicial system works. He said many of the people who commit crimes are repeat offenders and have been imprisoned by the institution on several occasions.
“A man is arrested for a case for which he should get 20 years in jail, but then the same person is released and he commits the same crime over and over again,” complained Bautista. “People that we have imprisoned on several occasions are still on the streets doing the same thing,” he said.
The director of the National Police gave as an example the recent cases in Herrera (where two people were arrested for a late Sunday night assault against a merchant) and Punta Cana (for which three people are imprisoned for murdering a Venezuelan in Punta Cana). He said the accused had been arrested previously for committing similar crimes.
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Listin Diario
16 May 2019