Philippines: 2 Mayors Assassinated in Past 48 Hrs.

Isn't their government also engaged in a full scale drug war, which includes summary executions of drug dealers without trial?

Does zero tolerance totalitarianism work, or does violence (state sanctioned or otherwise) just beget more violence?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/03/asia/second-philippine-mayor-shot-dead-intl/index.html

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea