Poverty is can be treated as the prime  reason of the rise of criminality in the country, though not exactly be, its incidence is proportionate to the rise or increase of the poor sector of  the population, which for economic reasons,  are prone to commit unlawful acts caused by their demand of existence to fight hunger and basic needs. Others, aspire to have riches  by means of kidnappings, robberies that resulted to murders and deaths of their victims. Even pickpockets and cellphone stealing can can kill their victims, that makes the reason why should poverty be addressed along with fighting criminality.

Drug trade victimizes the poor by making them couriers in exchange for higher fees, specially the youngsters, students, that do not know by their tender age to fight and keep away from drug trade, that later on, they get involved because they become used to money that was offered to them. The poor becomes part of the drug menace then.

There are other sources of crimes which do not attribute to poverty, but corruption and greed of the effluents  are other means of adding greater miseries to the state in tending its economic problems, that instead the government can make a turn around against poverty, the more funds corrupted and stolen, add more tot he problem.

Largely, the impact of poverty which is about hunger, housing, jobs,  health, education, etc., which the government was not able to serve, are primarily the causes of criminality, hence, poverty is the main reason that the Philippines should address about at this stage,

Drug war is a misplaced program of the current administration, rather , war on poverty is the precise program that must be given attention and priority by any administration this very moment.