In the context of killings, the problem with the police is not lack of discipline but 'the total absence of accountability for serious abuses,' Human Rights Watch senior researcher Carlos Conde explains
BURIAL. Relatives and community members, along with families of victims of extrajudicial killings, joined the funeral procession of Jemboy Baltazar, the 17-year-old who was killed by members of the Navotas Police, as he was laid to rest at the La Loma Cemetery in Caloocan City on August 16, 2023. Jire Carreon/ Rappler
For Maria Ela Atienza, a professor of political science at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, Jemboy’s killing again showed that “police operations continue to have problems,” and that “human rights and rule of law are not always observed.” Atienza also believes Duterte caused this violence because he tolerated and encouraged this culture of killing.
How to explain the behavior of the PNP? The problem is not the lack of discipline, he said, but “the total absence of accountability for serious abuses.”
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