Polícia carioca e paulista responsável por 11 mil mortes

Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. 

Few of the officers have been charged in the extrajudicial killings, which are often labeled in police reports as the deaths of suspects who resisted arrest, the report said. The 122-page declaration echoes a 2008 United Nations' finding that police throughout Brazil were responsible for a "significant portion" of 48,000 slayings the year before. 

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Rio state Public Safety Director Jose Beltrame, in charge of the city's armed security forces, previously took issue with the 2008 U.N. report, saying critics don't recognize that his officers must constantly confront drug gangs who rule over slums and are armed with military rifles, grenades and anti-aircraft weapons. 

"We have to deal with something few others face: armed combat with drug traffickers who are equipped with heavy weapons coming from abroad," Beltrame said in an October interview with The Associated Press. "That is a unique attribute our police deal with." 

He spoke after Rio gangs had unleashed a wave of violence in which they downed a police helicopter, killing three of the six officers aboard — just a mile (two kilometers) from the Maracana stadium, where the 2016 Olympics' opening and closing ceremonies and the 2014 World Cup final will be held. 

via news.yahoo.com

O relatório calcula que em 2008 a polícia carioca matou 1 em cada 23 pessoas presas, enquanto a polícia paulista matou 1 em cada 348.  No mesmo período, a polícia americana matou 1 em cada 37.000.

A conclusão desse relatório é que a promotoria deveria criar unidades especializadas para investigar o que significa "resistir a prisão". Acho que como Capitão Nascimento diria, resistir deve ser parar de respirar quando vai pro saco, não?

A saudade de casa é grande, mas não tem como voltar...

Comments

[Kevin G.]

It's always been one of my life goals to not go to prison. I think I'm going to add to the list a special bonus goal of not going to prison in Brazil. Jesus.

[Mr. BlueSky]

triste verdade :0( você chegou a ver a palhaçada que aconteceu em Brasília? O governador mandou a polícia sair batendo em um monte de estudantes que estavam protestando pacificamente, após escândalos de corrupção no governo? revoltante. os policiais Já chegaram atirando com balas de borracha, com a cavalaria atropelando todo mundo e aquelas coisa todas...

Quem sabe até 2016 melhore.