Atin America provides cautionary tales about giving more power...
Natifnatal Says...
atin America provides cautionary tales about giving more power to the police.
In Brazil, police have long been given massive leeway in countering criminality.
Raids in favelas -- poorer communities near cities -- are often accompanied by excess force, for which few police officers are ever held responsible.
An infamous example of Brazilian police brutality came in 2021 when police raided the Jacarezinho neighborhood of Rio in pursuit of the Red Command (Comando Vermelho - CV) and killed 25 people.
That year, Brazilian police murdered citizens at nine times the rate of their US counterparts, according to the LA Times, citing the think-tank Brazilian Forum on Public Safety.
In 2022, Latin America and the Caribbean accounted for eight out of the ten countries with the worst levels of police killings in the world, according to World Population Review.
Posted April 20 2023 at 4:34 PM
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