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Subscribe: Here’s something that might make some people rethink the conventional wisdom that Davao City’s is the safest city in the Philippines. According to this report, an average of 1.5 killings occur in the city every day. Most of these cases remain unsolved.
Would the new police chief, Senior Superintendent Jaime Morente, whom Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has praised, make a difference? Let’s wait and see.
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6 Responses to “Daily Killings in Davao”
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January 17th, 2007 at 9:23 am
I agree all of you. Unfornutely I still have family live in the Davao city and they are scared to death. I told them to move to Cebu City. I feel like throwing up just thinking about it. And then I feel sad because there’s nothing I/we can do about it. I gues we have another Hitler in Davao………I don’t think the law in the Davao City are bunch of idiots. They are bunch of “CHICKEN SHIT”…….nothing change as usual.
January 19th, 2007 at 7:07 am
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January 21st, 2007 at 9:35 pm
I was reading the whole story at sunstar and indeed it would look alarmingly high. Unfortunately is there a comparative statistic with Cebu or Manila, Cagayan de Oro, Bacolod or even Cotabato mentioned in this araticle? I do not think so. I would also be much alarmed if indeed Davao City has the highest number of unresolved deaths compared to other cities….How about statistics fromLondon, New York or Los Angeles or Even Moscow? how does davao compare in terms of ratio? Is there a significant difference? Have you also compared what Davao was in the 80’s and what and how everything is now? (Remember, there were more killings then because of the NPA and CPP NDF sparrow unit.). Note that most killings now are Gang wars… isn’t Chicago had the same bloodbath or even New York? (evidently these “wars” are still going on in certain neighborhoods). Please assess objectively
January 23rd, 2007 at 11:27 pm
i agree that the davao is the safest city in hall philippines in the most clean city i’ve ever seen in philippines and the most lovely mayor and very active mayor duterte .davao loves you mayor and we need you.and please well you be our mayor untel the end of your life .you are such a wonderful mayor rodrigo duterte.i love you davao well done mayor and keep up your good work mayor.we know you love davao.please dont run us senador.we need you please dont leave davao ok; by the way i’m here now in jordan i’m working us a domestic helper and i’m coming back in july to see my lovely town davao,
July 20th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
There’s always preoccupied motivation of why such a place is considered as safe, for example Davao City.
In this case, I’d rather suspect it is to manipulate public opinion to cover-up atrocities within the city, if not tourism.
There is no exact parameter to which we could assess the safeties of a place.
In my hometown, General Santos City, even though my outsiders couldn’t afford to stay longer there due to its reputation of having frequent targets of bomb attacks, still to my bias opinion it’s safe to live with.
But when people are killed, in Davao, almost daily, and by mere allegations or insinuations by police that they had criminal records or undesirables, and that the community tends to believes..it’s serious.
Who decides who deserves to die, that they are indeed criminals, that they don’t deserve due process, etc.?
This is what happening in Davao today…when life is so cheap in a particular place, respect for human life is absent, one should think deeply regarding how safe it is.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Read the article late but if all the victims are the lowlives. That’s good. Much better if corrupt goverment officials are included.These “authorized” oppressors are no different from the cut-throats in barrio cemento.