Puh-leeze!
| SHE SAYS |
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| Dinah S. Ventura |
When guns are carried by goons, gold is never far behind.
But is money or greed the only reason we are now suffering from a surfeit of police criminality?
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has yet to make headway in cleaning up its dirt-blackened image among fellow Filipinos, yet various cases have succeeded in besmirching it anew.
The past year alone saw at least two major, major issues that racked the police force. The first was about cruelty or brutality by the police, as showcased in Tondo, Manila, where a cop, wearing shorts and shirt, was seen tormenting a man who had been stripped bare and tied with a rope, one end of which the policeman was yanking cruelly as the man howled and writhed in pain. The other end of that rope had been tied to the man’s private parts, and the cop pulled as he pleased and delivered a beating with the other hand.
Whatever the man had been accused of doing, no one (least of all the police) had any right to torture and maim him. The incident was caught on video and later released by an unknown witness to media, exposing the kind of human right abuses that have apparently been taking place in some police stations.
The resulting public outcry led to an investigation, and the police officer and his team were reportedly relieved of duty and faced administrative charges..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110117com7.html
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