Filed in the Supreme Court and drafted by civil society groups, ADPF das Favelas generates discussions with MPs and ISP board For Deputies of RJ action to reduce fatalities in police operations would increase insecurity
Dubbed “ADPF das Favelas,” the lawsuit filed on Thursday (January 5) against Federal Supreme Court (STF) minister Edson Fachin to tone down Rio de Janeiro’s public safety policy has already sparked controversy. The authors of Action for Non-Compliance with Fundamental Precepts (ADPF) 635 are now lobbying Governor Cláudio Castro (PL) to set a goal to reduce police lethality in Rio de Janeiro by 70 percent or more, i.e. deaths caused by the intervention of state agents. The deadline would still be up to a year. The document also calls for the inclusion of a rate of police lethality reduction during community operations.
State MP Alexandre Freitas (PODE) argues that acts of resistance (when the police officer shoots the suspect or criminal to save his life) should not be justified anyway. “Calculating the number of acts of resistance in an abstract way is irresponsible for our operators, who are facing a situation of urban warfare. Absolutely absurd! As a rule, death in acts of resistance is caused by the violent conduct of criminals who force the police to react and not vice versa: it is necessary to adopt an operational protocol that considers any criminal who ostentatiously carries a weapon at the ready as an “imminent threat” use in an area classified as red/at risk by law enforcement. it will provide more security operators and protect the population from stray bullets, mostly fired by criminals,” he says.
For the vice president of the Public Safety Commission of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Alerj), deputy Coronel Salema (PL), the lethality rate with the aim of limiting the number of deaths is added to the other measures which, according to him, the work of the police would be more disturbing. “Reducing police lethality hinges on reducing action warfare that is characteristic of criminal gangs in Rio de Janeiro, which I am unaware of. The implementation of body cameras in special operations groups, for example, is wholly inadequate and incompatible with the nature of the actions developed by these specific units,” he underlines.
Delivered in December, the State Police’s Lethality Reduction Plan was handed over to Fachin, who is the ADPF rapporteur, but without including the target of at least 70 percent reduction. At the time, the director-president of the Rio Public Security Institute (ISP), Marcela Ortiz, classified the proposal to impose the index as “not feasible”, considering the period in which the STF itself banned the operations of police in the favelas during the pandemic. .
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