EMULATING President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s oft-announced policy of a relentless and unforgiving war against crime, some local mayors are launching their own self-styled Dirty-Harry campaigns to rid their jurisdictions of criminality.

Among them, no one has called more attention to himself and his campaign than Tanauan Mayor Antonio Halili, in Batangas.

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