Study confirms Rio de Janeiro as the state with the most deaths in police actions.
A report by the Security Observatory Network analyzed 20 violent events in seven states over the past year.
Brazil of Fact Rio de Janeiro has once again proven itself to be the Brazilian state with the highest number of lethal police killings. In the set of seven states analyzed by the new report from the Public Security Observatory Network, events linked to the police represent 55% of the study, but in Rio de Janeiro, they exceed that mark, reaching 67%.
The study, released this Thursday (6), also points out that the state stands out for police violence, being the state where the police kill and die the most.
“The Network of Observatories seeks to fill the gap left by the State's absence or omission in producing and widely disseminating reliable and high-quality data so that public policies can be evaluated. And it proves that, under any statistical parameter, it is the Black population that dies the most in Brazil today. Public security continues to challenge the new government,” says an excerpt from the report.
According to the study, if all the deaths recorded in the five northeastern states that make up the Network plus the state of São Paulo are added together, the total is 281 deaths in 12 months. In Rio, this number totaled 306 deaths.
For the third consecutive year, the study analyzed 16 indicators of violence in Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo, between August 2021 and July 2022. The period resulted in 21.563 violent events analyzed in these locations, highlighting a racial component in the violent actions, and was titled "Black People Grinding Machine: The Responsibility of Whiteness".
According to the report, the state of Rio de Janeiro needs a change of course in public security as soon as possible.
“Repeating old mistakes and investing in violent police actions, with violations of human rights, without intelligence or investigation, has brought us to this point. We have recorded record numbers of deaths caused by police officers and, at the same time, seen crime expand and diversify its activities, keeping significant portions of the population under violent control and financial exploitation,” says part of the study's conclusion.
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