Members of the Philippine National Police who are mindful of their career prospects should be following recent developments in Davao City.
In the previous administration, Rodrigo Duterte constantly reassured law enforcers that he’s got their back, that in case of legal problems, he would be the only one to go to prison for his brutal campaign against illegal drugs.
The seven suspects were shot dead within days after Duterte’s son Sebastian, now Davao mayor, declared a renewed crackdown on prohibited drugs in the city. This was on March 22, when Bad-ang assumed the post of city police chief. But the scale of the killings has gone down and the brutality much reduced. People – mostly hampas-lupa – are no longer threatened with a knock at their home and forced to register as drug abusers, or paraded around the town square as drug pushers. The jails are no longer packed to the ceiling, literally, with drug suspects who go half-naked due to the awful ventilation and must take turns sleeping in extremely cramped space.
Baste Duterte is invoking local government executives’ jurisdiction over the local police and accusing the PNP of abusing its authority. The mayor is demanding the reinstatement of the 35 cops. If the administration wants to prove that this is all about policy, it will have to be sustained, with other cops caught or suspected of carrying out drug-related killings similarly dealt with severely.
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