Items tagged with extrajudicial killings and brazil
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'Instead of doctors, they send police to kill us': locked-down Rio faces deadly raids [18.05.2020] | Police operations and body bags are nothing new to Rio, where state police killed a record 1,810 people last year, nearly five a day. But with the ci ... |
‘License to Kill’: Inside Rio’s record year of police killings [18.05.2020] | Officially, the police in Brazil are allowed to use lethal force only to confront an imminent threat. But an analysis of four dozen police killings i ... |
Rio violence: Police killings reach record high in 2019 [23.01.2020] | The number of police killings in Rio de Janeiro reached a record high last year, officials say, amid controversial hardline measures to tackle violen ... |
‘They came to kill.’ Almost 5 die daily at hands of Rio police [26.05.2019] | Shooting from helicopters, armored personnel carriers or at close range, police officers in Rio de Janeiro have gunned down 558 people during the fir ... |
‘They have free rein’: Rio residents fear police violence under far-right rule [17.05.2019] | During campaigning last year, Rio’s new, far-right governor, Wilson Witzel, promised a “slaughter” of gun-toting drug gangsters using helicopters and ... |
What LatAm cities can learn from the failures of Brazil's UPP policing model [01.08.2017] | Community policing has become the go-to security strategy in the Americas. But as the case of the Rio de Janeiro's "pacification" policing experiment ... |
Death toll mounts in Rio de Janeiro as police lose control of the city – and of themselves [17.07.2017] | Even in Brazil, where homicides are really common, Rio de Janeiro’s crime rate is stunning. It is now impossible not to notice that the city’s Police ... |
Do falling murders in Rio mean success for Brazil's UPPs? [18.12.2013] | Homicides have fallen 65 percent in the Rio de Janeiro favelas where Police Pacification Units have been installed during four years of the flagship ... |
Why do Brazilian police kill? [20.11.2013] | An average of five people were killed by police every day in Brazil last year, according to an annual security report, revealing an entrenched cultur ... |
Whither Rio de Janeiro’s Police Pacification Units? [18.11.2013] | Rio de Janeiro’s Pacification Police Units (UPP) are celebrating their fifth year in 2013. They do so with generally positive approval ratings from t ... |
Rio police charged over torture and death of missing favela man [02.10.2013] | Ten police in Rio de Janeiro have been charged with the torture and killing of a resident of the city's biggest favela in a case that has highlighted ... |
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