IF, as President-elect Rodrigo Duterte contends, there is crime and lawlessness in the country that should be stamped out by the government, it is no less true that there is widespread impunity in our society.

Impunity, bluntly and simply defined as exemption or immunity from punishment, is, in a sense, more outrageous than crime itself.

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