Crime incidence in the national capital region went down by 62 percent in the first three years of the Duterte administration compared to the last three years of its predecessor administration, according to the chief of the National Capital Region Office.
During a peace and order council meeting Tuesday, Maj. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said the crime incidence reports included cases of homicide, physical injuries, rape robbery, theft and carjacking.
At the same time, murder cases in Metro Manila, which has a population of 13.6 million, which goes up to 15 million at daytime, increased by 60 percent in the first half—2016-2019—of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term compared to the last three years of the previous administration of then President Benigno Aquino III, according to Eleazar.
There were 4,295 murder cases in Metro Manila from July 2016 to September 2019, up from 2,682 cases from April 2013 to June 2016, said the region’s police chief Maj. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar.
“We saw that in the first six months of this administration, the murder cases spiked because we know for a fact that these groups, these syndicates, were killing off each other,” Eleazar said during a regional Peace and Order Council meeting.
He ascribed the murder cases rate to police rogues “who are trying to silence these groups.”