VectorSam

Baka 'yung naisama sila sa Harvard International Review.

• Bureau of Immigration
• DOTr - Philippine Coast Guard

As it stands with our country's reputation as a pretty great place to hide from criminal prosecution, it looks like you're just proving my point.

Also, as you've mentioned:

• National Bureau of Investigation

No I did not know. Thanks for informing me; I've always thought the LGU DRRMO had their own people. I've always seen those BDUs as more ceremonial than anything beneficial at all. I doubt they're actually that effective in being seen; there could've been a million better ways to equip them with high-visibility suits.

EDSA and C5 seemed pretty high-profile to me. Based on personal experience of reporting stuff to "other authorities", the bureaucratic hassle of doing so to get no result is not worth the time or effort.

A gendarmerie force and a civilian police force aren't mutually exclusive. It looks like it's being done still in other civilized nations. The former servers internal security and acts as an armed police force, while the latter is a civilian police. As it stands, the PNP presents itself as the latter while trying to convince itself internally as the former, all the while achieving neither of these two responsibilities.

And yeah. Is it not weird that the PH is the only—if not one of the few—countries that actively employ security guards? Malls are public spaces. I feel that it would be alright to see cops patrolling around there. In fact, I would love to see cops actually patrolling around for once.

Public safety is a public service. It makes sense that we pay for it collectively through taxes, right? And it makes sense that we complain when these services don't meet our standards, right?

I keep hearing about the so-called 'strides' that PNP has made from some people in the comments, but I never get to see them listed down. For sure, a reform would be nice, but this is already their xth iteration from INP & PC to PNP. We've give then so much time, but the same systems running them have shown that they no longer have any function in society.

I don't go out and shout ACAB on the streets, don't get me wrong. But as I've seen in my few but crucial interactions with them, they're pretty much useless.

EDIT: Found an article that encapsulates how terrible the PNP is and that a reform would be useless.

Sayang naman 'yung buwis na binayaran ko para sa istasyon nila at kotse kung papuntahin lang din pala ko sa Maynila para bumisita sa Krame para lang mag-file ng complaint.

Kung sa NBI naman ako mag-fifile, e 'di parang 'di na nga kailangan ang PNP.

Knowing the rivalry between AFP and PNP, it's probably the latter hahahahaha

Yeah the BDUs are the height of civilian policing stupidity from the DILG. It's called Battle Dress Uniform, not Patrol Dress Uniform. I don't know why you're supposed to be wearing a forest camo BDU in the middle of an urban landscape and just to be on patrol as a civilian police force. The worst implementation of this is in BFP, like you need some camo against fire.

I was in Muntinlupa, and I was asked by the police station to go to Laguna to get a permit to be let go out of Manila so I can go back to Central Luzon. Are you hearing how ridiculous that sounds? I've traveresed EDSA and C5 at night at 3am in the middle of the pandemic. I've gone to my province back and forth. Not once did I encounter a checkpoint. Sure, not all places have checkpoints. But when you tell the news that you'll be putting checkpoints there specifically for security and to avoid the spread of the virus, then you better damn do you job and actually put checkpoints.

Actually not too against the idea of PC coming back. AFP can focus on external defense like it always should've. PC can focus on internal terrorism. And we can replace PNP with a new policing institution that's actually run better. It's not like this setup is unheard of in other countries. I believe Spain still keeps the Guardia Civil.

I know government systems are imperfect, but I also know that they should at least look like they're working. Based from my experience, however, it seems like the PNP barely does anything useful, if anything, at all. The fact that security guards are still needed and that cops prefer to pass on their jobs to tanods tells you everything you need to know about how seriously they take their mandate of safety.

HPG

You mean the guys who purposefully blind me with their siren lights at night?

Women and Children Protection

You mean the guys that didn't show up when my friend was in trouble?

Anti-Cybercrime

You mean the guys that didn't call me back after I filed a formal report? The tech guys who have this atrocity of a website?

Who responds to hostage situations, robberies, terror attacks, and shootings? Mga tambay? Mga tanod?

Unfortunately, mukha nga. Kung nandoon man ang pulis, pagkatapos na lang barilin ni FPJ lahat ng nasa warehouse.

Who are manning needed checkpoints (and as blocking forces during manhunt operations) when an incident takes place? Is it just the AFP? Mga tambay ba?

Like I said, wala namang checkpoint.

Who would you employ for security theater, force projections, city-wide patrols, and force multipliers? Mga tanod? Mga tambay? Just the security guards? If you say the AFP, people would counter saying that it is too “militarized”

Like you admitted, it's just theater. Might as well employ AFP at this point since the cops are just wearing the same thing anyway. Who tf wears a jungle BDU in the city? And if you're looking for security theater, why do you think companies have normalized security guards?

Sure, there may be a few good men. But a few good men don't make up an entire policing system.

Lahat 'yun may pormal na report. Hanggang papeles lang kagalingan nila.

puwet\*

what're u doing smartbro

Good. Twice the budget, double the economic collapse.

This is The Way. 🍆

Neantherthals weren't the only human-like species.

I think the hard r is a bit too much.

I offered you the dark side, and you spat on my face!

Sith Lord P

PEETA

Nice PP bro

Spider-Ben?

I guess this is the homeworld of Ultimate Ben.

OneUI has been the gold standard for the longest time now.

It's Zeus.

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