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Security & Strategic Review - November 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
BRAZIL: Rio episode adds to push against police violence
On 3 November Brazilians were treated to news that one of the worst recent cases of police brutality — the torture and murder of a bricklayer in Rio de Janeiro’s largest ‘pacified’ slum — was coming to a close with the transfer of one in ten of the military police officers deployed in the area, after 25 officers had been arrested and charged with involvement in the episode. That same day a report by an NGO was released revealing that while the level of police violence is still unacceptably high, it is on the decline.
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