If he had been a passerby standing in Praça dos Três Poderes to draft a project to combat organized crime, the fuss he created with the various versions of his report for the bill against criminal factions would have been understandable.
Unfortunately, Derrite is a veteran police officer and the governor’s Secretary of Security, a possible candidate for President of the Republic. More: Derrite is a federal deputy and likely candidate for the Senate in the name of what would be the electorate’s desire for more security. He was launched by the president of the Chamber, deputy, to report the bill against criminal factions.
With four versions, Derrite produced a monster, revealing the interests established in the country’s security machine.
Take as an example the limitation that Derrite wanted to impose on the Federal Police. Its first report established that the PF could only investigate after a request from the state governor. Grace. There are federal crimes, such as weapons and drug trafficking, but the PF would depend on a license from the governors.
If this system existed in the United States in the last century, executions of activists who fought against racist banditry in Southern states would have continued. Anyone who has seen the film “Mississippi Burning” knows what it is about. Racist banditry operated with the support of governors, judges and police officers. It was the Federal Police who disarmed the plots.
There, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is called the FBI. It was directed from 1924 to 1972, when he died, by J. (John) Edgar Hoover. A detestable guy, he wiretapped enemies and blackmailed politicians and presidents. A misogynistic bachelor, he was a bad example, but he created a robust and honest institution (in his own way). Hoover was a bad example, but he created and protected an exemplary institution.
With this name, the Brazilian Federal Police emerged in 1967. Since then, it has become, by far, the most respected police institution in the country. Derrite wanted her to ask state governments for permission to carry out her duties. The deputy secretary is a reserve captain in the São Paulo Military Police, where he made a name for himself in Rota’s elite troops.
The Capital’s Primeiro Comando operated its network of gas stations, companies and fintechs for decades. Thanks to Operation Hidden Carbon, by the Public Ministry and the Federal Police, part of this machine was dismantled, without a single shot. It killed 28 people in a single month of 2023. Almost all of them were poor black people and residents of the outskirts.
With his proposal to emasculate the Federal Police, Derrite showed that, while crime is organized, the São Paulo Government has become, at best, a mess.
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