October 2, 2009. The 2016 summer olympic games are awarded to Rio de Janeiro. And so begins the urge for security. The city has a pretty bad reputation, the war between the drug gangs is making headlines all over the world. It's time for peace. But as we already saw in the last post, Rio's definition, or at least picture, of peace is quite different from our.
Since insecurity rimes here with favela, it didn't take too long for the state governor to come up
with the idea that, with cops controlling favelas, peace would come. Or at least, the city's reputation will change. We don't want to scare potential investors, you know. Oh and it's election time. Convenient.
The project is named Unidade da Policia Pacificadora. It aims at getting the police to be closer to the population, while reinforcing social politics. The idea is to bring peace to territory under the control of drug gangs and improve the social inclusion of the people living in those territories. The government is investing 15 millions R$ in the police academy, hoping to reach the goal of 60 000 new policemen by 2016. By the end of 2010, 3500 of them should be joining an UPP.
The concept sounds good. Peace, social services and no drug gang. Too bad they choose to describe it as "uma importante arma" - an important weapon - for the state of Rio de janeiro. Guess they just can't get read of the idea that you need a gun to bring peace.
Link: Conceito upp
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