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...Manila's generally hardworking judges cannot get around to trying criminal cases for two years. As one result, a professional criminal is almost as immune as a rich man's son. After the five minutes it takes to raise bail, complains Manila's Police Chief Ricardo Papa, the pro has "anything from one to two years to go right on practicing his trade before he ever appears in court - if he gets there...
...indeed, if he ever gets caught. To police a city of 2,500,000 residents and 500,000 transients, Chief Papa has only 2,600 men working in three shifts -one cop per 3,450 civilians, or one-sixth the needed force. Papa's men are lucky to get 15 prowl cars on the streets at any one time. Half of the cars are wheezy World War II Jeeps without radios. Manila has only about 24 police call boxes; and even if the city had street pay telephones, which it has not, Papa says that his $80-a-month...