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  1. shadow

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    [FONT=&quot]The Philippine National Police has clarified reports that out of the 32 shootings in Dumaguete last year, 20 were drug related, of them ten victims were executed extrajudicially, while ten other drug cases were considered solved even as the ends of justice have yet to be completed in the courts of Justice.

    In a hurriedly called press conference Wednesday at the city mayor’s office, Dumaguete police chief PSupt James Goforth (right photo) presented statistics saying, not all killings were drug related. Some were personal alterations that led to homicide.

    Goforthexplained that extra- judicial killings is a nomenclature of the national culture of impunity which could mean both execution gangland style, or, simple homicide or murder. Extra-judicial in the sense that the killing was without judicial sanction.

    He noted that in Duamguete accidental shootings involving two brothers who are minors, the shooting of a mentally deranged person who went wild outside the emergency room of the provincial hospital and the shootout between a police officer in Canday-ong and a suspected drug pusher, were reported as extrajudicial killings.

    This means outside the ambit of judicial sanction. Under the law, no killing is judicial because death penalty is abolished. Therefore, all killings are outside the sanction of th4e court of law. In Latin, extra- mean outside, extra-judicial means outside the ambit of the judicial sanction.

    Goforth clarified that of the 32 shootings last year, 20 were drug related and ten cases were solved while ten were confirmed executed gangland style.

    Citing statistics, Goforth went on record before the peace and order council that in 2009, there were 39 shooting incidents, 37 in 2010, 32 in 2011, 13 in 2012 and 32 in 2013 or a total of 150 shooting incidents. Goforth did not say how many were killed.

    He showed media proofs that 20 of the shooting incidents in 2013 are drug-related with ten fatalities.

    He showed media proofs that 20 of the shooting incidents in 2013 are drug-related with ten fatalities.

    Goforth said due to the turf war, shooting victims themselves would refuse to pursue the filing of cases against their suspected triggermen.

    In fact, the police chief does not discount the possibility that at least two groups of illegal drugs personalities are maintaining self styled executioners or local “tiradors” or they themselves are hunting each other, due to failure to settle drug money transactions.

    City Mayor Sagabarria lamented over the obvious crime surge in the city and he made it clear he is not preventing media from reporting the happenings in the city, but to make sure that all figures are accurate.

    R eporters covering the peace and order council meeting quoted Sagarbarria saying “I have to fight the illegal drugs trade in the city AT ALL COST,” I don’t want our children, and our children’s children to be drug addicts in the future because the present leadership [/FONT] has just backed off,” the mayor stressed.

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    The simple presence of drugs does not mean your children will be addicts. Perhaps people should try to actually be parents. On the other side of it, and to relate to another thread here, poverty/unemployment are great recruiting tools for gangs. You can sweep the streets for, maybe, 100 pesos a day.......or you can sell a gram of shabu and turn a profit between 500 to 1k.

    If the politicians here are serious about stopping drugs, which they aren't, they first need to fix the poverty issue, which they won't because a poor and uneducated populace is required for them to maintain their seat in power.
     
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