{"id":7471,"date":"2016-08-24T17:26:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T09:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=7471"},"modified":"2016-08-24T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T09:26:22","slug":"change-has-come-philippine-crime-rate-down-by-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/change-has-come-philippine-crime-rate-down-by-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Change has come: Philippine crime rate down by 31%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">On the second day of the senate hearing regarding the alleged extrajudicial killings (EJK), Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Ronald Dela Rosa reported the number of crimes in July 2016, which was significantly lower compared to last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7472\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/delarosa-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"delarosa\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">CRIME RATE IN PH LOWERED. (Photo grabbed from Rappler)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">According to Dela Rosa, there was a \u201cvery significant decrease\u201d in rape incidents and a \u201cdownward trend\u201d in crimes such as murder, homicide, homicide, robbery, theft, car theft, motor theft, and physical injuries. 11, 800 crimes were tallied in July 2016 compared to that of July 2015 that recorded 17,105, as seen in a video of the press conference from <em>CNN Philippines<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Also, according to Dela Rosa, this was made successful through the Duterte administration\u2019s \u201cOplan Double Barrel\u201d or the Anti-drug campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The number of drug personalities who have surrendered before police stations were 673,978, and a total of 11,784 users and pushers have been arrested. &#8220;The PNP&#8217;s relentless campaign against illegal drugs continues to gain momentum, given the full support of the government and communities, as manifested by the number of [people who surrendered],&#8221; Dela Rosa added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/cnnphilippines.com\/news\/2016\/08\/23\/ph-july-crime-rate-decreases.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Philippines<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/news\/08\/23\/16\/dutertes-drug-war-cut-crime-rate-pnp-claims\" target=\"_blank\">ABS-CBN News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the second day of the senate hearing regarding the alleged extrajudicial killings (EJK), Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Ronald Dela Rosa reported the number of crimes in July 2016, which was significantly lower compared to last year. \u00a0 CRIME RATE IN PH LOWERED. (Photo grabbed from Rappler) \u00a0 According to Dela Rosa, there was a \u201cvery significant decrease\u201d in rape incidents and a \u201cdownward trend\u201d in crimes such as murder, homicide, homicide, robbery, theft, car theft, motor theft, and physical injuries. 11, 800 crimes were tallied in July 2016 compared to that of July 2015 that recorded 17,105, as seen in a video of the press conference from CNN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/delarosa-e1472030766987.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7473,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions\/7473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}