Positive results from the decrees

[NewsWhore]

As most observers predicted, the positive results of the Presidential decrees continue to flow in to the local newspapers. Last week, DR1 news reported a dearth of patients at the Dario Contreras Emergency Room on a Saturday night. This week, the National Forensic Institute reports that a comparison of the two weeks prior to the decrees and the two weeks since shows a decrease of 27 fewer deaths due to crimes. Nonetheless, according to the report in Diario Libre, deaths by stabbing have stayed at the former levels. And Doctor Santo Jimenez Paez, the head of the institute, reported that gunshot deaths fell from 46 to 22 during the time periods referred to in the report. Meanwhile, El Caribe is reporting that trauma cases in the Regional University Hospital Jose Maria Cabral y Baez Emergency Room have fallen by 25% since the decrees were announced. Doctor Andres Rivas, the director of the largest hospital in the Dominican Republic said that "the Saturday shift was a horror story for the emergency room people, and this is down by nearly 25%." Local police commander General Luis Dario de la Cruz Consuegra said that criminal activity was down by "90% since the decrees were announced."

More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)