Lethality and Police Victimization in Minas Gerais: general characteristics in recent years

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Felipe Zilli do
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: de Figueiredo, Amanda Mátar, Batitucci, Eduardo Cerqueira, Marinho, Karina Rabelo Leite, da Cruz, Marcus Vinícius Gonçalves, Assis Couto, Vinicius
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Segurança Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.forumseguranca.org.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/1046
• topic: Polícia; Segurança Pública; Letalidade Policial

This article proposes to present a diagnosis on the phenomena of lethality and police victimization in Minas Gerais, aiming not only to scale the problem of deaths due to police interventions and violent deaths of police officers in the state, but also to know more in depth, the situational, institutional and criminal contexts that characterize such episodes. In general, what the data obtained in Minas Gerais for the period 2009-2016 indicate is that there has been a trend of strong growth of indicators of police lethality in the state over the last years. The numbers of victimization of public security agents, on the other hand, have shown reasonable stability. Moreover, the research findings are in dialogue with elements already exhaustively discussed by other studies of the genre, such as the lack of training and continuous training of police officers for the adequate exercise of differential use of force, the need to increase external control of police activity as well as the qualification of information and records on lethality and police victimization