Encouraging snitches in Rio de Janeiro

Public employees convicted on corruption charges could apply for reduced sentences and even keep their jobs under a proposed state law if they agree to testify against co-workers. Rio de Janeiro’s state security secretary, Jose Mario Beltrame announced his proposal for a new state law in an interview with the newspaper O Globo on Saturday. 

We’ve recently written about how a police corruption investigation in Rio has uncovered a veritable snakes’ nest of cop-on-cop corruption allegations—with police accused of everything from tipping off targets of investigations to selling confiscated arms to criminal gangs—and it looks like Beltrame is trying to give authorities any and every possible tool to put law-breaking police behind bars. We’ll let you know if it works. 

(via Rio Real)