Abstract
Abstract
Chapter 2 highlights the complex Brazilian public security architecture and Brazil’s police history. It likewise investigates the historical roots of Rio’s urban conflict and presents the attempted changes in Rio’s public security politics in the run-up to the mega-events that greatly echo the vocabulary found in other cities around the globe, mantled around pacification, urban smartness, and resilience. The chapter shows consequently how the global mega-event philosophy was adapted to the city’s urban security management that is historically grounded in a vicious circle of attack and response in which Special Forces, equipped with armoured vehicles, assault rifles, and helicopters, invade communities, causing immediate reactions by drug traffickers, equally well equipped with heavy weaponry, claiming numerous victims among the local residents, the drug traffickers, and the police officers. Everyday life for the non-white and poor populations in these territories is commonly interrupted by the most violent forms of police controls, killings, and stigmatization.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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