The data is consistent with that of the CPI de las Armas , a congressional parliamentary commission that investigated arms trafficking in 2006. Alves, from the UFRRJ, describes the result of the ease of access as “an expansion of weapons, which, in turn, establishes a logic of insecurity. Groups will arm themselves for self-protection or for profit." And he adds that “the justification for the use of weapons is expanded, because it is a zone of conflagration. And in conflict zones, the logic is armed self-protection.
The police justification for the May 6, 2021 operation in Jacarezinho is an example of this “war zone” mentality. According to the police, the operation was part of an investigation into the recruitment south africa phone number list of minors by drug trafficking groups. But many of the families of the victims say their children were innocent. In other cases, such as that of Araújo's son, motorcycle taxi driver Marlon Santana de Araújo, the victims had minimal participation as varejistas , slang used to refer to people at the lowest level of the drug trafficking hierarchy, the mother explains.
She also believes that Marlon was a victim because, as a young black man from a favela, he suffered from structural racism that excluded him from many opportunities. racial bias The statistics of deaths at the hands of the police point to a clear racial bias. In 2020, according to data compiled by the Brazilian Public Security Forum (FBSP), an NGO that works in the area of public security, 78.9% of all victims of police intervention in Brazil were black, a number that has remained constant during decades. According to the FBSP, this demonstrates "the deficit of fundamental rights to which the black population of the country is subject." Young black men detained for petty crimes are always at risk of being lost forever, transformed both by the violence to which they are subjected and by exposure to organized crime networks operating within Brazilian prisons.