There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with the training of cops (or lack of it) in the Philippines. A few months ago, anti-carnap cops of the Traffic Management Group (TMG) gunned down three alleged carnappers. Now they’re at it again. They shot at the car of a pharmaceutical executive.
Luckily, the guy was able to continue driving and the cops weren’t able to give chase. Had things been different, we probably would be reading in the news about a drug crazed executive (it would be hard to frame him as a carnapper) killed after firing at the cops. Of course, the scene will be complete with a sachet of shabu and a Jericho pistol. Maybe even a wounded cop.
But back to training. There’s the matter of proper flag down procedure. There’s the matter of car recognition. And finally, there’s the matter of the objective of anti-carnap cops being not to just stop carnappers, but also to recover stolen cars. Unless there is a clear and present danger to other people, they should just let the carnappers go if there really is no way of stopping the stolen car but to start shooting. After all, what good is recovering a bullet riddled car?
Just when the economy was riding higher and you get another coup scare. Both the peso and the markets fell sharply upon the rumors of a coup and the subsequent declaration of martial law state of national emergency. Luckily when things sort of stabilized, both also recovered sharply.
Sometimes you wonder if someone is playing around with the government for market manipulation and profiteering purposes. You probably only need to spend just a little to shake up the fragile government a bit. But for sure, such unpredictability cannot be good for the economy in general.
Maybe what we should do is bulldoze down the EDSA Shrine and the People’s Power Monument. Maybe that will make people forget about EDSA 1 (and 2 and 3) and prevent people from exploiting it to promote instability. At the very least that should get rid of the horrible traffic whenever the EDSA 1 anniversary comes around. I mean, what’s been done’s been done. And when you think about it did things really really change?
Rating: 5/5