https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-come-hunt-brazilian-cops-110030392.html
‘The police come here to hunt’
Police killed 6,145 people here last year, according to the nonprofit Brazilian Forum on Public Safety — an average of almost 17 a day and nearly triple the 2013 total.
Taking population size into account, officers killed at roughly nine times the rate of U.S. law enforcement.
I think it’s safe to say that Brazil might be slightly more violent than the US…
So like do you think this is cool or something?
If they are killing hoods wholesale and it’s still bad then obviously there is a greater problem here.
Removing bad actors from the gene pool is messy business. Lord knows there is plenty here that need culling.
If only it were that easy.
I am not surprised. I know the Vatican complained about the crackdown that began when the visit was announced. Talk about violence. It makes American gangbangers look like hippies. Those folks don’t play, and I am not saying it is right or wrong. It is just the way it is currently in their nation.
So is the number including all the “Brazilian off duty cop shootings,” that we see all over the internet. Lol. That number may change. Haha.
LOLz, like Brazilian police aren’t dirty and doing some cleaning of their competition.
Brazil is a huge problem of corruption and oligarchy. But at least we know their arms industry runs efficiently. CBC makes a crap ton of ammo.
Should shoot more?
Nm…
Now that’s some tyranny!
I know it is a npr newslink, but the violence is bad enough in Brazil that a push for better self defense and firearm laws has been going on for a few years.
Spend some time in Sao Paulo and you will understand. No middle class, just wealth (starting at US uppermiddle class) and total poverty with associated crime.
I picked up on Central and South American .gov being totally corrupt by the time I was about 12 so the lone exception of police being involved in a shooting that I found amusing was a Cooper’s Commentary from the 90’s about several Mexican cops robbing motorists at gun point till they unknowingly tried it with a Mexican army vehicle.
Erring on the side of caution, it isn’t much different than cheering on gestapo, kgb, stasis, etal forces.
Must be shooting the right-pigmented people, or the Reverhunds Jackson & Sharpton (or their non-union equivalents down there) would be leading the protests.