The government issued a warrant to arrest 100 criminals. Of those hundred, 80 fled. Both the name of the operation (“Containment”) and the idea of new “retake” operations refer to a recent movement of conquest by the faction of areas that were previously controlled by the ; part of the debate, therefore, should be about the government’s strategy in the face of this war of factions.
How many Brazilians know this? I suspect very few, even though we spent two weeks talking about Alemão.
Instead of immediately disclosing the number of arrest warrants served during the operation, the Government spent days tracking down those who managed to arrest and those who died, until finding outstanding warrants that had nothing to do with the operation.
The did not authorize the mobilization of 2,500 police officers, four of whom died, to arrest any one hundred residents of Alemão who owed anything.
Those hundred, in theory, were important enough for us to run the risk of terror in Alemão, chaos in the city and a record number of deaths. Were those who were arrested?
As I said, Castro dealt with the failure very intelligently: when he saw that he had not arrested anyone he had to arrest, he pressed the “activate political polarization” button and watched the chaos unfold in the Brazilian public debate.
It worked out perfectly: when the failure numbers were released, social media had already been flooded with imbecilities like .
A week later, during the operation, Rio’s Secretary of Public Security, for this Sheet saying the focus was “never on arresting leaders.”
That’s not what authorities were saying a week earlier. Look for the reports from that Tuesday: they are, BMW, Gardenal and Pedro Bala, identified as criminal leaders whose arrest would justify the police raid.
Cláudio Castro has already announced that, with the same poorly explained long-term objectives.
Alemão’s was called “Containment”, because it aimed to contain the advance of the Red Command, which has been taking place in areas that belonged to the militias. According to , the next operations will take place in Jacarepaguá, in the areas that the CV took from the militiamen, to “retake territories”.
Resumption for whom? For the rule of law? As? The Castro government has already made it clear that it does not believe in occupation by police forces. Why wouldn’t Jacarepaguá return to militia control after the CV was expelled by the police?
If there are good reasons to enlist Rio’s police in the faction war, the government should explain them. Is it because the CV is more cruel than the militias? Is it to avoid the formation of a gang that dominates the entire state, as it does in ?
The political success of the killing in Complexo do Alemão helps to understand why no one solves the problem of public security in Brazil. It is too easy for Brazilian politicians to lie that they are solving it.
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