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Security & Strategic Review - October 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)
BRAZIL: Official data show 99% increase in killings by PM
In late October, headlines in São Paulo drew attention to the fact that killings by the military police (PM) in clashes with criminals in the first nine months of the year had shot up by 99% over the same period of 2013, to the highest level in 10 years. This time the source was the state’s public security secretariat (SSP), which also revealed that the number of PM officers killed in confrontations in the same timeframe had fallen to its lowest in a decade. Lost in the accompanying reports, though, was the fact that the monthly average of fatalities in the third quarter was significantly lower than in the previous two.
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