By Mahar Mangahas

Philippine Daily Inquirer-Nov 2, 2024

In June 1985, 54 percent of Filipinos surveyed nationwide said people in their neighborhood were usually afraid that their homes might be broken into, and 48 percent said that their streets were unsafe to walk at night. That survey was by the Bishops-Businessmen’s Conference for Human Development, a forerunner of Social Weather Stations (SWS), which then repeated it twice a year from 1986 to 1991, and quarterly from 1992 onward. Read more at: https://opinion.inquirer.net/178025/our-unsafe-country First published in Philippine Daily Inquirer