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How would an American such as myself describe the criminal justice system in the Philippines?  I’d be forced to say that it is a police state. Even so, it is a particularly ineffective police state.  Even the United Nations has to admit that safety is hard to come by in that country.  Follow that link and you will see a UN sponsored survey that has 10.5{660353129f8d892044c993645a1c75194301fec6786a7f617c15adde0b0011e9} of Filipino families report being victims of property crime every 6 months.  Which means, of course, that more than one out of every five households in the nation have something stolen from them every year. So where are the police? According to this news article, a deranged drug addict engaged in a shooting spree…

How would an American such as myself describe the criminal justice system in the Philippines?  I’d be forced to say that it is a police state. Even so, it is a particularly ineffective police state.  Even the United Nations has to admit that safety is hard to come by in that country.  Follow that link and you will see a UN sponsored survey that has 10.5{660353129f8d892044c993645a1c75194301fec6786a7f617c15adde0b0011e9} of Filipino families report being victims of property crime every 6 months.  Which means, of course, that more than one out of every five households in the nation have something stolen from them every year. So where are the police? According to this news article, a deranged drug addict engaged in a shooting spree until …