Drug-Related Cases In NegOr

The numbers do not really add up well.

This process of grand standing law enforcement activities reminds me a little of the LTO traffic stops, where there are lots of officer around, legal motorcycle being laboriously inspected, while 50 to a 100 motorcycles park down the road with in viewing distance of the officers,without lights, mirrors, license plates and tags, just waiting for the "show" to be over so they can drive on. There seems to be a significant number of emotional "shows" here to impress people that something is being done.

 

And this is why Detuerte suggested shooting people, right? How many have been killed? More than 28?

Use the right tool for the job I guess.

 

Some said they thought the bodies would litter the streets...and now they seem disappointed that it has not happened. Like Marvin the Martian, they wonder where the earth shattering Kaboom is, there should have been an earth shattering Kaboom? I expect that some of the people who signed the pledge will be getting a visit in due time. True the police resources they have now could be doing more but not a great deal more, not without they produce a few more prisons.

 

Well my friend, according to another Thread, it seems that Prisons are a part of the problem So! Plan "B"

 

I used to expect more from the PNP since their name implies they are a Police force on a national scale. But then I talked candidly to many of them over the past 5 years and learned that they are Trained in the same schools as a private security guards. ( Criminology School ) There is no Police Academy with proper law enforcement skills being taught. Most are afraid of their own shadows when it comes to protecting a stranger at the risk of their own lives, the stranger loses.
Dumaguete City is still in the control of the criminals with the blessing of the PNP in most cases, as long as it does not directly affect them they will not put much effort into pursuing criminals. At the police station there is a computerized complaint system at the front desk but none have been trained on how the use it.
Now my expectations are so low I am never disappointed in their behavior.

 

Maybe they need to designate an island as a prison and interdict it. Guard it with Cessnas armed with machineguns and radar buoys. Maybe if Jolo were a little more distant from other islands, it would make a good prison, killing two birds with one stone.

 

This is working so good with drug dealers/users, why not apply the same protocol to people involved in corruption. Hmmm.....

 

Partly because you need to change the laws first. Many people don't ever care to learn much about the Philippines so they don't know about some of the laws, like that if you are being investigated for corruption and you get re-elected you are absolved of wrong doing because evidently you were doing the peoples will and they were ok with what you did. If they did change the law, it would only affect things going forward because if it applied to the past there would be witch hunts and no politician would be safe. To change the laws, you need to get those currently in office to vote against their self interest. How likely is that to happen? In the US, congress exempts themselves from the laws everyone else has to live under. If you wonder about corruption, I would suggest you start at home because they won't kick you out of the US for meddling. The Philippines is what it is. I believe that expats encounter very little corruption...Unless you make yourself a party to it.

I have chimed in about corruption in the Philippines because I see how it affects the Filipino. I don't pay tax except sales tax there, I don't really have a dog in the fight. There are things like the bullet in the baggage scam but generally, if you don't participate in corruption, as an expat you are unlikely to encounter much of it.