Democratic shielding of the Federal Police or defensive police shielding?
With the departure of the Minister of Justice, the question of shielding the Federal Police returns to public debate.
Jacqueline Muniz
Anthropologist and political scientist. Professor in the Bachelor's program in Public Security at UFF. Public Security Manager.
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Those from Rio understood the kidnapping of Maduro: about coercion, illicit markets, and governments that don't fall.
The kidnapping of Maduro and the practices of state coercion that reorganize illicit markets and preserve power regimes without institutional rupture.
Those who act don't rule: gender and power in public security.
Why are there so few women in charge of public safety?
The spread of organized crime groups to small and medium-sized cities.
What we are seeing is an update of armed rule and a criminal, financialized, connected, and institutionalized economy.
The ORCRIM's last name is not Terrorist Organization.
'The concrete political risks of equating criminal organizations with terrorist organizations are extensive,' writes columnist Jacqueline Muniz.
The disaster of a mega-operation in Alemão and Penha by a government that outsources its command.
'The war spectacle exacerbated collective fear and fueled moral panic in Rio. The Cláudio Castro government produced fear and social disorientation.'
The disaster of a mega-operation in Alemão and Penha by a government that outsources its command.
No criminal organization in Rio de Janeiro fully controls the territory. Control is over the population, through the threat of violence.
Caricatures of Public Security
From the apocalypse of the right to the chimera of the left, the engines of a government of insecurity.
The return of the Western awards, a passport to "organizing" organized crime.
The system of bonuses for deaths transforms the police into an instrument of crime and deepens public insecurity.
Clandestine rifle factory and the political economy of "organized crime"
The clandestine industrialization of rifles exposes state complicity and transforms organized crime into a political and economic power.
The assassination of the former police chief and the reaffirmation of the PCC's political-criminal scheme.
'The State is not just an antagonistic avatar of organized crime: it manages its boundaries, issues tacit licenses, and guarantees selective regulation.'
Lessons learned from the Federal Police operation.
It's time to abandon clichés about organized crime and acknowledge the role of the State in the machinery of violence.