Singer: The country doesn't know how to deal with the problem of crime.
A political scientist states that the Brazilian prison system has been signaling its chaotic situation for some time, citing the beheadings of prisoners in Maranhão in 2014; "Between one shock and another, nothing effective will be done. Why? Because the country is in complete disagreement on how to proceed in relation to the problem of crime"; André Singer sees strong social investment as the solution to the security crisis: "Now, after twenty years of limited public spending, such a vision becomes, once again, utopian."
247 - Political scientist André Singer analyzes the crime situation in the country, using the two recent massacres in the prisons of Manaus and Boa Vista as a starting point. He recalls that back in 2014, when prisoners in Maranhão were beheaded, the Brazilian prison system was already sending warning signs, but nothing effective was done to change the harsh reality of the prisons.
"Between one shock and another, nothing effective will be done. Why? Because the country is in complete disagreement about how to proceed in relation to the problem of crime," he writes in his article in Folha de S.Paulo.
Singer recalls that the UPP plan consisted of social support along with security. "Housing, mobility, health, education, and leisure would need to come together with the presence of an armed force for control. Now, in the face of twenty years of limited public spending, such a vision becomes, once again, a utopia."
"Until a broad civilizational consensus is formed, the house of the dead will continue to send intermittent and clear signals of Brazil's profound barbarity. Without answers from above. It is no coincidence that the President of the Republic called the Amazonian massacre an accident."