The fight
against organized crime in the State of Sao Paulo-based "knockout"
has reached an intolerable point.
For
months, the Paulistas are witnessing a macabre routine.
The
latest episode occurred between late Tuesday night and Wednesday this week, when
at least 12 people were shot dead in Greater São Paulo, (7) seven of which
killed shortly after a military policeman (MP) have been killed in the city of Taboão
da Serra. (City peripheral part of Greater São Paulo)*
Police in
the region said that the state action was revenge for the death of police
officer (PM.)
Before
That, in Santos (in the Lowlands that is part of the metropolitan area) a wave
of violence left 13 dead in five days, also after the murder of two policemen.
These
numbers show that public security authorities have been unable to conduct
investigations leading to the capture of those responsible for the attacks
against the police.
There are
already 79 soldiers killed this year, and the PMs, for fear of being caught by
criminals hide the uniform and go in a convoy when they come home.
At the same
time, the government does not seem strong enough to discourage the vigilantes
of action, for those not interested in things like the civilized rule of law.
The
government's response was to announce an operation with 15 000 PMs in the state
and conducting a siege in the Lowlands and in the metropolitan area.
"The PM wants to show that it is responding to spikes in criminal
incidences," said the commander of the Military Police, Colonel Roberval França.
He denied
that it is an ongoing war between the PM and the PCC chief criminal
organization in the state. For France, this is only a "series of
irregularities."
The
reaction of PM is in line with the government's recurrent version according to
which the breath of the PCC is in order. The Secretary of Public Security,
Antonio Ferreira Pinto has denied that the deaths in the lowlands are related
to the PCC (PCC means first command of capital and is
Represented by the number 1533 in protest banners When the Rebellions in
prisons) and went on to say that the press "glamouriza" (a
Certain glamor with cur ...) the group "which would only bring unrest to
the people."
According to Ferreira Pinto, the PCC boils down to "30 or 40 people who
are stuck for a long time and engage in trafficking."
Documents prosecutors, however, show that the faction has more than 1,300
criminals in 123 cities located.
Operating
since 1993, the PCC had only acknowledged its existence in 2000, by then
Governor Mario Covas, so the group had enough time to develop without being
bothered.
And that
power would soon manifest: in 2001, the group of criminals calling themselves
by the acronym PCCC paralyzed 30 prisons in São Paulo, demonstrating a high
degree of articulation, which is possible only in an environment of lack of
rule.
The
impact of this display of force was such that the generated implementation of
Differentiated Disciplinary Regime, to isolate the faction leaders in prisons.
In
November 2002, the government has felt free to declare, by the voice of the
delegate responsible for combating organized crime, the CCP had been
"dismantled" - and even joked: "If the PCC had a mouth full of
teeth, now has a tooth here and there.”
Just
four years later, the PCC "toothless" promoted an unprecedented wave
of terror in Mumbai, killing dozens of police and imposing curfews in the
suburbs It is indeed wise not to exaggerate the power of the enemy, and the
government's effort to not show weakness before the PCC is strategically
correct.
However, to
minimize the scope of the group, wanting to believe that it is only a handful
of traffickers, authorities undermine the evidence and manifest in his speech
such a disconnect with reality that, after all, citizens are unsure if could
again feel safe.
To counter
the offensive of organized crime, state officials would do better to put aside
the discourse on the fragility of the PCC, which insists on denying reality,
and actually began to invest in intelligence to identify the masterminds of
this crime wave against police.
Another solution, less laborious, is to close your eyes and let avengers do the
"service."
But then we will leave the field of public
security and enter the barbarism.
*Greater São Paulo (1)
** Estado
de São Paulo (2)
* NOTE:
- (1) The Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, also known as Greater São Paulo,
gathers 39 municipalities of the state of São Paulo in intense process of
conurbation. The term refers to the extension of the state capital, with its
surrounding cities forming one continuous urban sprawl.
representation of the map of the Santos region
São Paulo
is the sixth largest city of the planet and its metropolitan area, with
19,822,572 inhabitants is the fourth largest agglomeration in the world. Other
regions near Sao Paulo are also metropolitan areas in the state, such as
Campinas, Santos and São José dos Campos and other nearby cities include urban
agglomerations in the process of conurbation, as Sorocaba and Jundiai. The
total population of these areas plus the capital - the so-called Expanded
Metropolitan Complex - exceeds 29 million inhabitants, about 75% of the
population of the entire state. The metropolitan regions of Campinas and São
Paulo now form the first macro metropolis in the southern hemisphere, joining
65 counties that together are home to 12% of the Brazilian population.
representation of the map of the state of São Paulo
**NOTE: - (2) The Region of São Paulo is one
of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the Southeast and has limits on the
states of Minas Gerais to the north and northeast, the southern Paraná, Rio de
Janeiro and Mato Grosso east South west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the
southeast.
It is divided into 645 municipalities and its
total area is 248 209.426 km ², equivalent to 2.91% of the area of Brazil.
Its capital is the city of São Paulo and its current governor is Geraldo
Alckmin.
As the
state with the highest GDP, representing about 33.5% of the total wealth
produced in Brazil, São Paulo is known as the "locomotive of Brazil".
Besides the great economic power, the state
has relatively good social indicators, such as the third highest Human
Development Index (HDI), the second highest GDP per capita, the second lowest
infant mortality rate and the fourth lowest rate of illiteracy among units
Federative of Brazil.
With over
41 million inhabitants, equivalent to about 22% of the Brazilian population,
Sao Paulo is Brazil's most populous state and the third most populous political
unit of South America, being surpassed only by the other states of the country
together and Colombia, and ahead of all other South American countries.
Its population is one of the nation's most
diverse and mostly descended from Portuguese, who discovered Brazil and settled
the first European settlements in the state of São Paulo, and Italians, who
began emigrating to the country in the late nineteenth century, also descends
Amerindians, Africans, and other large migratory flows, as Arabs, Germans,
Spanish and Japanese and Chinese.
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