Indonesia’s Police Chief Touts Killing Drug Dealers as Crime Solution

[TomSea]

Indonesia’s Police Chief Touts Killing Drug Dealers as Crime Solution

Praises Philippine President Duterte’s Murderous ‘Drug War’


The head of Indonesia’s police on Thursday unveiled a new policing approach to combating drugs:  shooting suspected dealers.

Indonesia’s National Police Chief Gen. Tito Karnavian is looking to the Philippines – where thousands have been killed in a state-sanctioned anti-drug campaign – for the wrong kind of inspiration.

Karnavian stated that, “From practice in the field, we see that when we shoot at drug dealers, they go away.” Karnavian specifically cited Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” as the source of his belief that capital punishment was an effective way to combat drug dealers. And with sinister echoes of Duterte’s unlawful instigation of mass killings, Karnavian has already instructed his officers “not to hesitate shooting drug dealers who resist arrest.”

Duterte’s drug war is not about “capital punishment” – a judicially imposed sentence after a criminal trial – but a police-led summary killing campaign that that has killed more than 7,000 Filipinos since Duterte took office on June 30, 2016. Duterte has glorified those deaths as proof of the “success” of anti-drug measures that have disproportionately targeted urban slum dwellers.

Continued: https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/07/21/indonesias-police-chief-touts-killing-drug-dealers-crime-solution

HRW, so take what they say with some bias, I heard about this story and this is what I found on a search.

[Wingnut]

Police Chief Touts Killing Drug Dealers as Crime Solution.
That might work in the long run.... A Better plan would be to kill the users.  No users, no market.

[Fishrrman]

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Karnavian stated that, “From practice in the field, we see that when we shoot at drug dealers, they go away.”

That sounds like a pretty rational and reasonable assumption, if you ask me.

Considering the resistance of drug dealers to all other less-drastic types of law enforcement... what works, works.