ALARMED WITH the rising crime situation in Angeles City and incredulous at the claim of the city police director that the “crime solution efficiency rate was 82.22 percent,” we came up in our Feb. 5 issue with the editorial Crime in the city.
Listed in that piece were the killings – then as now still unsolved – of:
a) Businessman Arwin Ting: shot dead in broad daylight by two gunmen riding-in-tandem on a motorbike at the busy Sto. Rosario St. in the very heart of the city’s commercial district on Dec. 30, 2008;
b) Young businessman and disc jockey Heherson Punzalan: peppered with bullets in an early morning ambush along MacArthur Highway less than a kilometer from the Angeles City Police Office (ACPO) at Camp Tomas Pepito in Barangay Sto. Domingo, on Jan. 18, 2009;
c) Joven Pineda Deala, half-brother of Apple.D.App of the Grammy Award-winning Black Eyed Peas, was shot dead at dawn by two unidentified men while he was with his girlfriend in his car parked along a street in Barangay Ninoy Aquino, on Feb. 3, 2009.
So where was Senior Supt. Pierre Bucsit coming from with his crime solution efficiency statistics? We asked in that editorial.
So what’s happening to Angeles, Mayor Blueboy Nepomuceno? We asked too. And answered ourselves, “Your friendly city has become too friendly to the trigger-happy.”
Buwisit, we spat out in frustration.
Then in our Feb. 13-15 issue, we editorialized Fire Bucsit, our call predicated thus:
“Three high-profile killings. Three unsolved murders. That’s strike three at the police crime bat.
So what has the ACPO chief, Senior Supt. Pierre Bucsit, to say about it?
Pre-meditated killings all, and therefore, hard to solve. So was Bucsit reported as saying before the sangguniang panlungsod at its session last Tuesday.
With his very words – as reported – Bucsit shirked his very responsibility as the city’s top cop. Time to give the ACPO to some other police officer who would not find pre-meditated murders hard to solve.
Buwisit, we vomited in exasperation.
Four days after, in our Feb. 19 issue, we made an even stronger call: Fire Bucsit now!
“…we asked the Honorable City Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno if we had to wait for another killing before he would let go of Bucsit.
Tuesday dawn our fears were nearly affirmed with the shooting of elderly American national George Lavalley by carjackers right at his garage in Clarkview Subdivision, Barangay Malabañas.
Responding cops took all of 30 minutes to reach the crime scene. The culprits having long gone with the victim’s Honda Accord.
So Mister Mayor, how many more strikes at your constituents should you wait for before you cut – and cut cleanly – from Bucsit?”
Really, really buwisit now, on the evening of Feb. 28 our worst fears were affirmed: Edilberto Cayanan, the village chief of Barangay Pulung Maragul was shot by a lone assailant in front of a store in his own turf, pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.
Apparently a premeditated killing again, Cayanan’s will go the way of the previous cases – “hard to solve,” in Bucsit’s terms.
So what has Mayor Blueboy to say of this, yet another high-profile killing, with an elected official no less as victim?
“We have ordered the speedy solution of the assassination.” So was the mayor quoted as saying. Purely SOP.
“However, due to various angles, the PNP is doing their best to investigate and have a precise lead to the mastermind.” We see some rationalizing there, Mister Mayor.
On all the killings: “According to the Angeles City Police Office the victims are not targetlocked meaning this were random crimes and no one wants to serve as witness.” Sheer gobbledygook of a justification of police incompetence, you advanced there, Sir.
As Bucsit’s spokesperson, Mayor Blueboy serves best. It is not only Bucsit who deserves some firing there.
Go Mamac, go. Go Mayor Major, go.
Listed in that piece were the killings – then as now still unsolved – of:
a) Businessman Arwin Ting: shot dead in broad daylight by two gunmen riding-in-tandem on a motorbike at the busy Sto. Rosario St. in the very heart of the city’s commercial district on Dec. 30, 2008;
b) Young businessman and disc jockey Heherson Punzalan: peppered with bullets in an early morning ambush along MacArthur Highway less than a kilometer from the Angeles City Police Office (ACPO) at Camp Tomas Pepito in Barangay Sto. Domingo, on Jan. 18, 2009;
c) Joven Pineda Deala, half-brother of Apple.D.App of the Grammy Award-winning Black Eyed Peas, was shot dead at dawn by two unidentified men while he was with his girlfriend in his car parked along a street in Barangay Ninoy Aquino, on Feb. 3, 2009.
So where was Senior Supt. Pierre Bucsit coming from with his crime solution efficiency statistics? We asked in that editorial.
So what’s happening to Angeles, Mayor Blueboy Nepomuceno? We asked too. And answered ourselves, “Your friendly city has become too friendly to the trigger-happy.”
Buwisit, we spat out in frustration.
Then in our Feb. 13-15 issue, we editorialized Fire Bucsit, our call predicated thus:
“Three high-profile killings. Three unsolved murders. That’s strike three at the police crime bat.
So what has the ACPO chief, Senior Supt. Pierre Bucsit, to say about it?
Pre-meditated killings all, and therefore, hard to solve. So was Bucsit reported as saying before the sangguniang panlungsod at its session last Tuesday.
With his very words – as reported – Bucsit shirked his very responsibility as the city’s top cop. Time to give the ACPO to some other police officer who would not find pre-meditated murders hard to solve.
Buwisit, we vomited in exasperation.
Four days after, in our Feb. 19 issue, we made an even stronger call: Fire Bucsit now!
“…we asked the Honorable City Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno if we had to wait for another killing before he would let go of Bucsit.
Tuesday dawn our fears were nearly affirmed with the shooting of elderly American national George Lavalley by carjackers right at his garage in Clarkview Subdivision, Barangay Malabañas.
Responding cops took all of 30 minutes to reach the crime scene. The culprits having long gone with the victim’s Honda Accord.
So Mister Mayor, how many more strikes at your constituents should you wait for before you cut – and cut cleanly – from Bucsit?”
Really, really buwisit now, on the evening of Feb. 28 our worst fears were affirmed: Edilberto Cayanan, the village chief of Barangay Pulung Maragul was shot by a lone assailant in front of a store in his own turf, pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.
Apparently a premeditated killing again, Cayanan’s will go the way of the previous cases – “hard to solve,” in Bucsit’s terms.
So what has Mayor Blueboy to say of this, yet another high-profile killing, with an elected official no less as victim?
“We have ordered the speedy solution of the assassination.” So was the mayor quoted as saying. Purely SOP.
“However, due to various angles, the PNP is doing their best to investigate and have a precise lead to the mastermind.” We see some rationalizing there, Mister Mayor.
On all the killings: “According to the Angeles City Police Office the victims are not targetlocked meaning this were random crimes and no one wants to serve as witness.” Sheer gobbledygook of a justification of police incompetence, you advanced there, Sir.
As Bucsit’s spokesperson, Mayor Blueboy serves best. It is not only Bucsit who deserves some firing there.
Go Mamac, go. Go Mayor Major, go.
