Abstract

MENEZES, Palloma. The problem of approximation in "proximity policing": dilemmas of the "pacification" experience of favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Trab. soc. [online]. 2018, n.31, pp.51-73. ISSN 1514-6871.

This article deals with the problem of the approach involved in the so-called "policing of proximity" that was implemented in 38 Pacifying Police Units launchedduring the last decade in Rio de Janeiro. This study was based on ethnographic research and in-depth interviews with residents, police officers and traffickers from three slums between 2009 and 2015. The first sections of the article deal with past traumas and uncertainties regarding the future of the project, which have fostered mutual mistrust since the beginning of the pacification process and have made it difficult for police and slum dwellers to approach.The next section deals with the "approach tools" that were fleched by UPP officers during "pacification". And the last part of the work deals with the exemplary case of the first commander of the UPP. The central argument of the work is that the actions undertaken by this police officer, to some extent, summed up the "spirit" of the UPPs' project and the dilemmas of "pacification", since they articulated, on the one hand, activities of repression of crimes and of planning of the territory of the favela; and on the other hand, preventive actions, based on the attempts to approach the favela population.

Keywords : urban violence; crime; policing; pacification; favelas; Rio de Janeiro.

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