IT was supposed to be just another news forum hosted by the Manila City Hall Reporters’ Association (MACHRA), of which this author happens to be the President until our guest turned so emotional and shed tears. PBGen. Andre Dizon, Director of the Manila Police District (MPD) no less, unexpectedly cried in an emotionally-charged narration of how he rose from being a poor provincial boy to the chief of police of the country’s capital city and later, as a cop, how at one point in his life, he thought his career was over. Being a co-host of our Vice President Andi Garcia, I usually get to throw the first question. I asked Dizon what went inside his head when he was informed that he would be leading the top police district in the country. He began his answer by going back to the day when he first set foot in Manila, as a young, poor boy from the province of Sorsogon. “Noong 1978, dinala po ako ng tatay ko sa Luneta galing probinsiya para magpa-picture, Di ko akalain na ‘yung eight year...