Since the drug war began in July 2016, Duterte has claimed at least 14 times that law enforcers are being killed daily, increasingly varying the average from “two to three” to “three to four” to “four to five.”
At least 3,000 law enforcers should have been killed since July 2016 for Duterte’s “six to eight” daily average to be correct. (See VERA FILES FACT CHECK: When did the anti-drugs campaign under Duterte officially begin?)
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte’s grim portrait of war on drugs is not supported by gov’t data
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