WHY AND HOW

ONLY 3 GRADUATED COLLEGE

23 WERE COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATES

184 WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL 99% of the victims never got to finish tertiary education

with 54.4% of them only reaching high school and 36.1% only reaching elementary.

122 REACHED ELEMENTARY

1 ONLY FINISHED PRE-SCHOOL 5 WERE IN AN ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM.

OCCUPATION 66 CONSTRUCTION WORKERS OR CARPENTERS

40 HAVE MULTIPLE JOBS

36 TRICYCLE DRIVERS 33 HAVE OTHER OCCUPATIONS 21 FISHERFOLK

29 VENDORS 16 GARBAGE OR JUNK COLLECTOR

23 ARE UNEMPLOYED A huge chunk of the victims are construction workers (16.4%) or are involved in multiple occupations or “sidelines”

(10%). While jobs vary, it is apparent that all the victims are blue-collar workers. A big portion of them are also workers from the informal sector earning mostly at least a minimum wage.

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DID THE VICTIMS HAVE PRIOR CRIMINAL RECORD?

NO 120

YES 76

While only 39.7% of the total documented cases disclosed information on past criminal records, more than majority of them have, in the past, been charged, convicted, or have served prison time for petty crimes.

VICTIMS’ LINK TO ILLEGAL DRUGS ACCORDING TO STATE AGENTS

75% DRUG USERS 58% DRUG PUSHERS

49% HAVE DRUGS IN THEIR POSSESSION 14% RUNNERS, COURIERS, MESSENGERS ACCORDING TO COMMUNITY OR FAMILY

40% DRUG USERS 26.7% HAVE NEVER BEEN LINKED TO ILLEGAL DRUGS

Naturally, there is a variation as to the link to illegal drugs as narrated by the families or witnesses of the victims as against the position taken by the State agents (police, NBI agents, PDEA, etc.). However, from the perspective of the victims’ families or witnesses, 26.7% were never linked to illegal drugs in any way, while about 40% admitted to the victims being drug users.