pacification

Residents observe as policemen take up position near an area where two men were found dead on top of the Sao Carlos slums complex in Rio de Janeiro May 15, 2015.

Rio de Janeiro’s pacification program slips back to tactics from its bloody ‘War on Drugs’

October 30, 2015Justice

Community policing was supposed to pacify Rio de Janeiro’s slums before the 2016 Olympics. It hasn’t worked out that way in many favelas, and it may be because Rio police are still operating using a “war on drugs” mentality.

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