Fans of the austere, wool-clad gloom of other Scandi-crime successes will have to adjust to the pace here, but its jittery grittiness has its own rewards, a star-making turn by Robocop-in-waiting Kinnamannamongamong them.
Christian Quedado, 22, said he believed Duterte was an "honest person and everything he says will happen", adding that the mayor's anti-crime success in Davao would be taken nationwide.
"We look at this as an investment in public safety," he continued, crediting the computerized firearms databank for crime fighting successes.
"Many of the largest drug-trafficking, excise evasion, people-trafficking, counter-terrorism and wider national security, and serious crime investigative successes of the recent past have in some way involved the use of interception and/or communications data," Sir Paul concluded.
News of the show comes after true crime TV successes "The Jinx," "Making a Murderer" and FX's scripted "American Crime Story: The People vs O.J. Simpson," and a day after NBC greenlighted "Law & Order: True Crime".
One aide said the speech represented an effort to highlight the administration's crime-fighting successes.
Chen's crime-fighting successes have brought him fame as an eccentric but brilliant detective.
He spoke of building on the crime-fighting successes of the Giuliani years while working to improve police-community relations.
But several people within the department said the move reflected a numbers-driven culture in which commanders bear intense pressure to outperform past crime-fighting successes.
It will be more like fighting crime, where success is always relative and victory is never final, than like fighting a war.
