Slay try suspect shot dead

What's really said is, "thankfully no civilians were hit or we would have to do our jobs and try to figure out who did it."

Out on bail for murder and the guy shows up dead a couple months later....gee, wonder who would have motive to kill the guy. I guess it's cheaper than taking care of it through the courts.

 

He should have never been out on bail for attempted murder in the first place,or maybe it was planned for him to be out on bail as the case could have been difficult to prove! A couple hundred peso on bullets or several hundred thousand peso and ten years in the courts.

 

So an emotional grieving family should be allowed to be judge, jury and executioner? That could never go wrong. I wonder how many Hatfield and McCoy families there are in the Philippines.

 

If the justice system was fair and they got on with it here in a proper way there would be no need for this sort of thing! If the cops did their job instead of sat on their fat arses eating rice or sleeping all day and got their arses out on the streets and actually did something If people stopped paying and bribing the system to get murderers and drug dealers off the hook things would be fairer!

 

If they paid the cops and judges a reasonable salary they wouldn't be as likely to accept bribes. A municipal judge makes around P100k ($2,300) a month. The salaries go up the higher up the court system goes, and not surprisingly, the higher up you go in the court system the more likely you are to get a fair trial.....unfortunately you could be rotting in jail for a decade or more while you wait to sit in front of one of those judges.

A general in the Army makes P67k a month (which is, pathetically, less than a municipal judge......and less than a private in the US Army). How eager would you be to go after gang leaders who would love nothing more than to kill you if you were being thrown chump change by your government?

And who is really being murdered in the Philippines? Most of what I read is gang violence (and usually they are killing a person from a different gang) or from something that people didn't have faith the courts could deal with. The Philippine government has created the drug culture that has grown in the past decade or two, they were idiots and followed the US's lead on the "war on drugs". It's a massive failure in the US and the cost to maintain our prison system shows it.

This is one of those things a smart presidential candidate would be thinking about changing if he wanted to prevent crime and corruption. Instead many people want to elect a Neanderthal with a club that just wants kill anything that he doesn't like.