Lacson in turn is deeply loyal to Estrada, who resurrected his career by first giving him another task- force job, then making him PNPboss. With Lacson again in anti-crime mode, kidnappings and bank robberies have dropped dramatically. These unpopular checkpoints tend to jack up the price of prime goods in the capital because businessmen pass on the cost of extortion money to consumers. Lacson has fielded plainclothes cops to monitor the activities of extorting policemen. If the PNP cannot cleanse itself of its derelicts, it has no business cleansing society of its criminal dregs.
Policemen are now suddenly courteous.
Bad cops have turned good. I would lose a lot of friends even as I created new enemies. Those I fight, I do not hate. Those I protect, I do not love. It is simply a matter of duty.