Brazil. The quantity of people that died in Brazil in 2023 because of police actions has virtually tripled in comparison with the figures from a decade in the past, in keeping with knowledge from the Public Safety Yearbook, launched Thursday by the Brazilian Public Safety Discussion board.
Final 12 months, Brazil recorded “6,393 deaths” because of police motion, in comparison with 2,212 in 2013, which represents virtually thrice as many, a rise of 189 p.c.
Police-related deaths in Brazil reached an all-time excessive in 2021 (6,493), however the figures are little modified since 2018; final 12 months, for instance, they fell by simply 0.9 p.c in comparison with 2022.
The consolidation of police violence contrasts with the decline within the variety of homicides globally: final 12 months Brazil recorded 46,328 violent deaths, 3.4 p.c lower than in 2022, and the downward pattern started in 2018 and has remained gradual however fixed since then.
Police are answerable for 13.8 p.c of all violent deaths recorded in Brazil, and in some states, similar to Bahia (northeast), this proportion is even larger.
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– 2024-07-23 04:12:17
