Police Chief unhappy with Justice Department

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Police chief Bernardo Santana Paez expressed his displeasure for the Justice Department yesterday as he told reporters "it is not possible for people who have committed crimes to go in and out of jail so easily." He urged legislators to take the important issue of recurring crimes by the same individual into consideration. The chief said that the latest spurt in crime was attributable to people who had been charged and brought to justice, but are now "on the streets", and he cited a case in the Santo Domingo barrio of Capotillo where a construction supervisor was killed by people who had just been released from jail. The chief was answering questions from reporters about last Monday's incidents in which five assaults, several deaths and half a dozen arrests took place in the capital. The general attributed the cases to the normal "ebb and flow" of crime, and pointed out that the crime rate is lower today than it was two years ago.

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