{"id":3789,"date":"2015-06-05T18:41:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2015-06-05T18:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:41:02","slug":"davao-city-criminals-are-all-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3789","title":{"rendered":"Davao City criminals are all killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Davao City\u2019s secret to being named the world\u2019s 9th safest city, according to Mayor <strong>Rodrigo Duterte<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To make the city safe, this has always been my unwavering stance against criminals,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou rape a child in my city? Papatayin kita, walang problema sa akin iyan (I\u2019ll kill you, I don\u2019t have any problem with that),\u201d Duterte told over 200 delegates during the first national convention of the Workplace Advocates on Safety in the Philippines Inc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/435783\/duterte-tells-criminals-leave-davao-city-vertically-or-horizontally\"><strong>Duterte tells criminals: Leave Davao City vertically or horizontally<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou commit robbery with rape? Papatayin kita (I\u2019ll kill you),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re the 9th safest city, how do you think did I do it? How did I reach that title among the world\u2019s safest cities?\u201d he asked. \u201cKill \u2018em all,\u201d he said, as his audience gasped and applauded.<\/p>\n<p>Davao city was recently tagged as the world\u2019s 9th safest city by the crowd-sourcing site\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.numbeo.com\/\">www.numbeo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte said even former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, despite her perceived faults, had sought him out as peace and order adviser during her term to replicate the best practices of Davao City. He recounted telling Mrs. Arroyo that sparing no criminal would help. \u201cBut the best practices in the city, Ma\u2019am, are the killings,\u201d Duterte recounted saying to Arroyo.<\/p>\n<p>He said he did not care if the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) filed cases against him in court if it sees problems in the way criminals are being dealt with in Davao City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy should I be afraid to go to prison?\u201d he asked. He asked the delegates, mostly safety officers of big corporations and owners of companies, to choose the best bet for President in 2016 but added he does not covet the position.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the suspension of the death penalty has only emboldened criminals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you start to be soft in this country and allow Western thoughts to sip in, that\u2019s when you start to have problem,\u201d he said, referring to the death penalty and the concept of rehabilitation for criminals as ideas \u201cimported\u201d from the West.\u00a0\u201cThey want to rehabilitate instead of just killing the idiots,\u201d he said. &#8211;\u00a0 by <strong><em>Germelina Lacorte<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Davao City\u2019s secret to being named the world\u2019s 9th safest city, according to Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}