Corruption in places high and low. The Department of Justice is conducting a “massive” investigation but how massive can it be, that the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission beat DOJ in the game by naming names.
Who’s investigating the investigators?
With so many high-profile crimes being committed by policemen, one has to ask, where do the corrupt, crooked, and cruel ones end up? The easy way out is to transfer the scalawags to Mindanao – why Mindanao? – or dispatch them to a desk job somewhere so they’ll die of boredom. Look at the nine policemen who killed four intel soldiers in Jolo. If no arrest warrant is issued against them, so goes the report, they’ll be free to walk; in other words, they did not commit a crime.
We want straight, honest, dependable cops, the best our taxes deserve.
Two PNP officers were called out recently for demanding respect from the very people policemen are sworn to “serve and protect” – an Americanism borrowed from watching Hollywood cops-‘n-robbers movies. Perhaps because it’s a foreign concept, some policemen have got it all wrong, like the Tarlac police master sergeant who shot and killed a woman and her son for daring to argue with him. There’s the cop who killed a construction worker in Pampanga that he mistook for a robbery suspect. There’s the PMA graduating cadet who mauled a younger cadet who was caught drinking. The latest incident took place in Cebu, where a policeman shot and killed his neighbor, motive unclear. This is what the PNP regional director said: “It’s normal to get angry but we should not resort to violence because at the end of the day, it will be us who will be facing a big problem.” No, sir, it’s the victims and their families who are left with the insurmountable problem of death and irreversible loss.
Temperamental cops, those with attitude just don’t get it. Commented a former three-term barangay chairman, “What audacity to demand respect! Respect is earned!”
Random drug tests conducted January to December last year showed 46 cops positive, 20 of them from NCR. Are they in a rehab center, or back at work with a gun and badge? Next question, is there an old boy network within the police establishment?
