Justice Pinoy style

I am disappointed--though not entirely surprised--about the way authorities have handled investigations into the recent brutal murder of ten people during a bank robbery in Cabuyao, Laguna: As part of their operations to nab those responsible for the crime, they have gone out and killed four suspects during a shootout. But as news articles say, the police have yet to determine whether the suspects were actually involved in the murders!

And sad to say, that is very typical of criminal investigations here. As inexcusable as the original crime was, doesn't killing alleged suspects also bring down the police to the level of the murderers? Aren't police trained to give the alleged or suspected criminals a chance to surrender peacefully before resorting to deadly force even in extremely dangerous situations (unless of course there is an immediate threat to life)? Isn't it also downright stupid to kill the suspects when we could have obtained more crucial information about the actual perpetrators had they been taken alive? (I could rant on but my "30 seconds" have long been up.)