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Sure am glad that the police in the US don't "spray and pray". No such thing as fire discipline in Brazil, I guess.Not sure who I would be more afraid of.
In the US, that man would be found so negligent as to likely be jailed, even if nobody was hurt.
JugBR, there are many, many, many US policemen and sherriffs that make barely enough money to be classified above poverty in the US. What is disappointing is that Brazil has such a wonderful culture and technical industry that is truly world class. Yet to battle these drug thugs, it appears that Brazil has hired untrained security personnel whose tactics look to be everybit as dangerous as the drug lords. In CBs post, you literally have a security individual firing an M16 indiscrimenantly unaimed fire into the civilian housing.
In the US, that man would be found so negligent as to likely be jailed, even if nobody was hurt.
Definately, and that shows how bad the situation is right now, it has been progresively deteriorated from the late 1970s when the drug cartels became stronger and stronger.
And the big problem is nobody cares...nobody cares about anything, neither the criminals to blown your head off for a pair of tennis shoes nor the police to kill a innocent bistanders in order to blast a suspected criminal occuped house.
Really lame situation.
More than lame, CB. A world crisis. Because if Brazil doesn't get their $hit together, it will spread to your and my country.
certainty matt, the crime is a united worldwide organization, do you doubts theres conection between cartel de cali, in colombia, comando vermelho, in brazil and gangs of los angeles and new york ?
believe 70´s is quite exagerated, since the comando vermelho born in 80´s as an criminal organization and in 70´s we had the dicatureship yeat wich means the drugs problem was almost insignificant. also the cocaine in brazil started to be a real problem in begining of 80´s, before that, people just smokes marihuana here.
since the economy is growing and the investidors are bringing money, the situation is improving, because theres more jobs for the population and the police slowly is crushing the cocaine/guns trade routes. this new governor of rio de janeiro, sergio amaral is doing very strong policies to combat the crime. the deal is to cut the supply lines of drug dealers.
You are right but remember the infamous "death squads" of the mid 1970s wich were a response ( illegal and desproportionate) to the already high criminal rate.
I am not very convinced that a economic growth ( even always good) would help in this situation, I think you need a real shock to counter this, like would be bulldozing the slums and relocate the dwellers in a cleaner and safer enviroment with straigth, illuminated streets and providing all basic services wich many them dont have right now.
If you cant do that you will have more than a half of the problem solved. Because it would be more difficult to the drug lords atract people to his "cause" and it would made easier to the police to patrol and control the area.
It is a huge task I know, both economically and politically, Brazil have the resources but I am not sure if it have politicians with the balls big enough to carry out this desission.
Saw this movie three or four years ago, a sad story indeed. Seems that not much has been changed since 1970ies..