User:Aalvarez598/Law enforcement in Brazil

Controversies

The "favelas", slums or a shantytown, in Brazil have many criminal gangs within them that protect individual favelas from other rival gangs and the law enforcement. The government has been seen as "ineffective" towards criminal activity within favelas and Brazil as a whole such as trafficking of humans and drugs, kidnapping, and robberies.

Corruption and crime levels within Brazil remain high and Bolsonaro’s administration has aimed to help decrease these levels with the help of the police. Bolsonaro mentioned on his own social media page that criminals "should be" attacked by police officials which can aid to the decrease in crime. Thus creating a larger distrust towards law enforcement in Brazil.

Many residents of favelas do not trust law enforcement due to the fact that in 2008, the police killed an average of three people for every twenty three people they arrested in Brazil. Crime levels are high due to extreme poverty levels and law enforcement refusing to patrol favelas.