MANILA, Philippines — Majority of Filipinos said the number of drug addicts in their areas has decreased over the past year, a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey result showed on Saturday. The poll also found that most Filipinos said it is important that illegal drug trade suspects must be captured alive. Meanwhile, 95 percent of Filipinos say it is important that illegal drug trade suspects must be captured alive with only 5 percent said it is not important. The survey result also showed that 87 percent of Filipinos believed that the police considers it essential to capture illegal drug trade suspect alive. However, only 13 percent said police considers it not important to capture illegal drug trade suspects alive.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 16, 2019 04:27 UTC