Let's not condemn the PNP yet

"I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do." -- ICE T

By Alex P. Vidal

NEW YORK CITY -- We can't blame the families of victims of police brutality. Their hatred toward our law enforcers is only a microcosm of a sick society's macrocosm.
Which explains why our national police force is once again on the brink of total destruction. 
And our cops have low morale now that calls to abolish the Philippine National Police (PNP) are loudly girdling like Hercules' wrath.
If we have family members, neighbors or friends who are connected with the PNP, let's give them moral support.
Let's not crucify them yet; let's not treat them like dregs. 
The likes of Sta. Isabel and Dumlao, among other principal accused in the slaughter of a Korean trader, are only rats in a house. 

NOT ALL

Not all those who live in the house are rats. 
Not all members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) are hoodlums and scalawags. 
When we want to get rid of rats, we either use a mouse trap or Dora rat killer and Racumin. We don't burn the entire house.
We don't abolish the PNP only because some cops are dishonest and criminals. All paradise have their own shares of serpents. All forests are infested with snakes.
Even the church is not clean. There are rascal priests and cardinals of ill repute. Some saints in heaven have ugly past. 
We still believe that majority of the PNP's 160,000 personnel are dedicated, sincere, hard-working, and trustworthy. 
It's not fair to flush the entire organization down the toilet only because of a few feces.

GOOD

We know a lot of good, courteous and well-mannered PNP personnel in Western Visayas where we grew up. 
Many of these cops --men and women -- are content with their salary and regard their uniform with pride and glory. They come from respectable, religious and honorable families. 
Everywhere in the Philippines we can still meet cops who are proud to wear their uniform and are not distracted by the negative tag alluded the organization as a result of shenanigans committed by a handful.
Anywhere in the Philippines we can still hear stories of heroism and acts of valor committed by our cops that are not given prominent media attention either because they shun publicity and choose to remain anonymous, or we in the media are only guilty of negligence and indifference for our failure to give importance to these great deeds by our maligned cops.