The fallout from and the PNP's response to the shooting of a woman and her son by their neighbor who was an off-duty cop has been just what everyone has come to expect of that very corrupt organization. They say it's an isolated case and let's not focus on the bad apples because there are so many good cops. Pure deflection.
First the "isolated incident" canard.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/21/20/pnp-chief-says-cops-shooting-of-unarmed-neighbors-an-isolated-case |
"The PNP considers this as an isolated involvement of the person of PSSg (Nuezca). In no way will such incident affect the sworn duty of the 221,000 police personnel to serve and protect our people," he said in a statement.
He said that based on Nuezca’s records gathered by the Central Luzon police, the officer was investigated twice by the Internal Affairs Service for grave misconduct involving two homicides on May 9 and Dec. 29 last year.
“All of these were dismissed because of lack of evidence and witnesses to pursue the administrative cases. So, more or less, no criminal case was filed against him,” Sinas said.
He noted that Nuezca was also charged administratively for grave misconduct in 2013, less serious neglect of duty for failing to submit himself to drug testing in 2014, and serious neglect of duty for failing to appear as a prosecution witness in a drug case in 2016.
Sinas said the most Nuezca got was a 31-day suspension for avoiding the drug test because the other two less grave offenses were “dropped and closed.”
How convenient that there was warrant enough to investigate but then there was no evidence or witnesses to pursue the cases! Well there is the whole presumed innocent thing. But surely the PNP knew they had a problem cop on their hand when he refused to show up for a drug test, right?
The fact that he was able to operate with such impunity shows that the PNP is not as interested in cleaning its ranks as they claim. It also shows that, contrary to what Año says, the sin of this man IS the sin of PNP.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1374265/ano-sin-of-cop-in-tarlac-shooting-not-the-sin-of-entire-pnp |
“While there are unfortunate incidents like this, the vast majority of our PNP personnel perform their sworn duties everyday with honor and integrity to protect and serve the people,” Año said.
“The sin of Nuezca is not the sin of the entire Philippine National Police. As we have seen during this pandemic, they place their very lives on the line as frontliners in our COVID response,” he added, referring to Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca who is the suspect in the crime.
To Año this brazen and evil killing is just an "unfortunate incident." Shit happens right? That's what former PNP chief Bato said when a toddler was killed during a drug bust.
Maybe Año is a lapsed Catholic and does not understand that even though we did not commit Adam's personal sin we are still just as guilty as he because he is our representative. In the same way because the PNP did nothing to stop this man they are guilty of this crime which is a culmination of all his other misbehavior.
This ties nicely into the second deflection which is "not all cops."
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1374735/remember-cops-heroic-acts-too-pnp-says-amid-backlash-from-tarlac-shooting |
But PNP spokesman Brigadier General Ildebrandi Usana said the incident should not overshadow the PNP’s good deeds.
"We respect all accusations because of Nuezca but let's also look at the many good examples that our police have already shared," Usana said Tuesday in a televised Always Ready Public Briefing.
“It can no longer be counted. Maybe it will be fair and just to pay attention to the heroic acts of our police over this particular case of Nuezca, ”he added.
What a straw man! No one is saying the entire PNP head for head is corrupt. Sure there are good cops. Check out this "good cop" the PNP showed off as an example.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1375705/good-cop-in-pnp-tale-hit-protesters-in-2016 |
What should have been a feel-good story to restore public trust on the police had backfired when the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) made the wrong choice of its poster boy for a model officer.
In a statement earlier this week, the NCRPO praised Police Staff Sgt. Franklin Kho, a decorated officer with the Manila Police District (MPD), for using a month’s worth of salary to help the “Hijos del Nazareno” — honor guards of the Black Nazarene image of the Quiapo Church during the annual January traslacion or procession.
“This is another proof that not all police officers stray from the path,” he said.
While some applauded his charitable deed, others questioned the choice of Kho as a model officer after he had bulldozed and ran over a crowd of protesters using a police van during a rally in front of the US Embassy on Oct. 19, 2016. Dozens were injured in the potentially fatal action by the officer.
It was not the first time that Kho used a police vehicle in responding to protesters. In December 2010, Kho used a police truck to crash into a barricade put up by “kuliglig” (motorized rickshaw) drivers on Padre Burgos Street near the Manila City Hall. The drivers were then protesting an order by then-Mayor Alfredo Lim banning three-wheeled vehicles from the capital’s main roads.
The PNP's model cop ran down protestors twice! But since that was in 2016 and 2010 I guess we should forget all about it. Let bygones be bygones right?
One local PNP chief, former chief, thinks along the same lines as Año and Bato and is protective of PNP officers. The lesson learned is to respect cops, he says.
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| https://www.pep.ph/pepalerts/cabinet-files/155698/catanduanes-police-chief-respect-a734-20201221 |
“My Father is a Policeeee Mannnnn ha !!! I don’t care eh eh eh eh eh err !!! Putangina you want to finish you now ???? Bang Bang Bang Bang ..
"Lesson learn even if we have white hair or we are gray, we can learn to respect our policemen. It is difficult to resist restraint and patience.
"RIP Mom and Sonny."
This refers to the current news about the killings of a mother and her son by a policeman in Tarlac province which have gone viral on the internet.Accordingly we find it very disturbing that PNP Bato Municipal Station Chief-of-Police, Cptn. Ariel R Buraga has posted in his Facebook account that the slain mother was at fault because she did not give due respect to the policeman prompting him to shot her fatally.Much as we respect his right to publicly pronounce his personal opinion regarding the killings, he should have exercised restraint and prudence in doing so considering that he is Chief-of-Police in this LGU, on the one hand, and that he should let the PNP's investigation into the matter run its natural course so that the truth about the tragedy would emerge, on the other hand.
In this regard, we will highly appreciate it if the PNP could assign another Chief-of-Police in this municipality to assuage the fears of the constituents of this LGU of a seemingly biased chief-of-police whose loyalty it seems, rests primarily with his fellow policemen than with the constituents in his area of responsibility.
Of course his loyalty rests with his fellow policeman. Where else would it lie? DFA Secretary Teddy Locsin even had a word to say about this man's Facebook post.
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| https://twitter.com/teddyboylocsin/status/1341184923097395200 |
"you piece of native shit and incontrovertible proof that Independence was premature."
Maybe reverting back to a colony of the USA would fix all the problems in the PNP and the entire government. Why not? The USA gives this nation billions in aid of all kinds every single year while their own citizens get nothing!
Worry not, there will be no changes in the PNP as result of this case.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/22/20/pnp-spox-says-tarlac-killings-wont-trigger-change-in-police-force-cites-earlier-reforms |
The brutal killing of unarmed civilians by a police officer in Tarlac province will not spur any changes in the Philippine National Police (PNP) as earlier reforms have been implemented, its spokesman said Tuesday, saying the shooting incident was isolated and would not dampen the "best intentions" of the police force.
"I guess what [Police Master Senior Sgt. Jonel] Nuezca did is something that will not even trigger any change at all in the PNP because we have had many changes [that] had already been initiated," Police Brig. Gen. Ildebrandi Usana told ANC amid calls for reform.
"This particular case actually will not make the PNP as if we're totally wrong because as I was saying, this is an isolated case. The murder criminal action has already been filed. The [officer's] dismissal will be forthcoming. The PNP will have to move on from there."
Usana maintained that Nuezca's action, which he described as abominable, does not represent the 221,000-strong police force.
He said the PNP had already dismissed some 4,800 out of 16,800 police officers who were facing various administrative cases.
"We have had these number of cases involving erring police officers... they are all dismissed from the service. If they stay longer in the service, the PNP itself may be at [the] wrong," Usana said.
"But in this case, we will not waste any minute longer for them to stay in the service because they don't deserve to be a police officer at all."
If any change is to come out of the killing of a mother and her son in Paniqui, Tarlac, the president's press secretary said Tuesday that he thinks it should be on the part of the opposition, whose criticism, he said, has become repetitive.
Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, Roque leaned once again on the narrative that concerns over human rights and alleged police brutality are just an attempt by the opposition to discredit the Duterte administration.
"The only test for a police officer to use violence is if there is a threat to his life. It's the opposition who should probably recalibrate because they sound like broken records," the president's spokesman said.
It's funny that Harry Roque could ever utter such a sentiment because he was once a prominent a human rights attorney. The depths to which this man has fallen are unbelievable. He's gone all the way down the black pit towards the lowest circle of hell.
I've written about police reform before and the fact is the PNP has been, now is, and ever will be a corrupt organization. The reforms they enact have been useless to stomp out corruption within the ranks. But this is all par for the course. Let s not forget our friend Gaspar de San Augustin who wrote the following 300 years ago:
43. They act tyrannically one toward another. Consequently, the Indian who has some power from the Spaniard is insolent and intolerable among, them—so much so that, in the midst of their ingratitude, some of them recognize it, although very few of them. Yet it is a fact that, if the Spaniards had not come to these islands, the Indians would have been destroyed; for, like fish, the greater would have swallowed the lesser, in accordance with the tyranny which they exercised in their paganism.
Sounds a lot like the PNP today, huh? A little bit of power and they lord it over their fellowmen. Reform? Never gonna happen.
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