Symbolic, political and practical aspects of police lethality in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo during the Bolsonaro administration

Abstract

The question that moves the present article is to expose, from a symbolic, political and practical perspective, the effects of a discursive synergy, among the state administrations of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and the Bolsonaro administration, in relation to police lethality as public security police. Initially are examined some quantitative and qualitative elements of police lethality in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, after the redemocratization. Next, it is exposed a relation between discursive alignment and practical effects in police lethality, on a context which, despite disputes in the traditional political arena, Witzel administration, Doria administration and Bolsonaro administration replicates an approach of support of police violence as public security tool. At last is presented, as final considerations, a scenario of formation of a political body that reproduces a and is obsessive with a bloody logic as something capable of reach an imagined sense of security and total liberation of violence and crime, in a way that the death of the other by the police assume the collective meaning of symbolic, political and practical attachment to barbarism as criminal policy.