During Expert XP 2025this Saturday (26), the governors Tarcisio de Freitas (Republicans-SP) and Ratinho Júnior (PSD-PR) defended a structural change in the Brazilian federative pact, proposing the transfer of criminal legislative competence to the states.
The proposal, inspired by the United States model, would allow each federation unit to create its own laws to face the crime, according to local realities.
“If we do not change criminal legislation, if we do not change criminal proceedings, we will not win this war,” said Tarcisio. “Sao Paulo will not have room for crime. And I’m sure we will change the criminal legislation. We will put a bum in prison because society can not stand it anymore.”
Tarcisio associated the increase in crime with the fragility of national laws and argued that states take the protagonism in the creation of stricter rules to combat organized crime.
“So what is this country where the killer is in a penalty in freedom? This is no sense. It’s time to lead to change this scenario and return security to society. Because the city is for the good citizen.”
He also highlighted actions by the São Paulo government to resume sectors occupied by organized crime. “We are reoccuping the fuel sector, solid waste, social health organizations. Where the crime has instrumentalized to launder money, we are reocuping.”
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Ratinho Júnior reinforces proposal
The governor of Paraná endorsed the thesis and said that the main obstacle to public safety in the country is not the capacity of the police, but the criminal recurrence caused by impunity. “The problem of Brazil is not the police arrest, it is the justice to release. The police of Brazil holds a lot.”
Ratinho stressed that Paraná today presents the lowest crime rate in 17 years and that their management has invested strongly in the criminal structure. “We built 14 prisons in two years, created the Penal Police, took 12,000 prisoners from the police stations and released the delegates to investigate.”
According to him, the state reached a crime resolution rate of 78%, while the national average is around 35%. Still, the governor sees limits in the centralized model. “I’m sure if I send a law to punish murder with 40 years in jail, it is approved the other day. But this will only be possible if the states can legislate.”
