While the growing death toll from the Philippines' anti-drug campaign has drawn harsh criticism abroad, most Filipinos hope that President Rodrigo Duterte's iron-fisted approach will bring the same boost in security and economic prosperity nationwide as it did in his hometown of Davao.
Nicknamed Bato -- "rock" in Tagalog -- for his shaved head and large physique, Philippine National Police chief Ronald dela Rosa spearheads the campaign. He torched a pile of seized marijuana about 3 meters high on Sept. 2 for the public to see.
