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When I lived in the Philippines a couple of years ago, Duterte was extremely popular on the street for this reason. He basically "cleaned the place up", when I

• jpmoral 5y ago
  It's dehumanisation. 1. Many of the police's murder victims were children. People accept this because hey, it's not my kids. 2. The process by which victims are chosen is opaque. When you're dead, no one's going to listen to your family protest your innocence. 3. Early on Duterte promised to haul in big fish: generals, governors, and the like. So far the biggest fish have been mayors in small towns in far-flung provinces. Most victims have been from the poor and marginalised. Anyone who thinks the drug trade has been stamped out is kidding themselves. 4. What little statistics there were at the time the anti-drug campaign was launched showed that drug crime was not the bogeyman it was hyped to be. 5. Street crime and violent crime is still rampant. Wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be the same cops now emboldened with a license to murder. The human cost has been appalling, for no benefit that I can see.