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Monday, January 15, 2007
62% of Davao City killings remain unsolved
By Rhodamae M. Hernandez
DAVAO CITY -- They come in different police and street slang -- Davao Death Squad, Kutsilyo Gang, or sometimes just the generic "gang-gang," the present-day word used to refer to youths joining troublesome gangs in Davao.
But they are pointed to as responsible for one, almost daily, occurrence in the city's inner city settlement population: street killings.
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And for 2006, solution to these murders, drive-by killings, and "trips" or fancy killings appear wanting with 62 percent of the three-figure number remaining unsolved.
For a killing to be marked solved in the police blotters, it means a suspect has been identified.
The Investigation and Detection Division of the Davao City Police Office listed a total of 640 cases of killings -- either by stabbing or shooting -- in the city for the year 2006, or an average of 1.57 killings in a day.
Of this number, only 231 were "solved." The police attribute the low solution rate to the absence of witnesses.
A total of 601 deaths were males, both adults and young. Of the total, 568 were adults while the rest were minors killed in gang-related killings.
The suspects in the 231 "solved" cases have already been arrested. Some are detained in police stations, the others already at the Ma-a City Jail.
A total of 382 cases are still under investigation. (Sun.Star Davao/Sunnex)
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