In 2019, One in Every Three People Murdered in Rio Was Killed by Police Forces
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The G1 website disclosed an alarming reality in Brazil on Monday, January 20th. In 2019, the Brazilian police killed 6220 people, which corresponds to more than the total number of homicides committed throughout the entire European Union.
“In some Brazilian states, there are serious indications of abuse of force and also of executions,” explains the same publication, disclosing more shocking data in 2019: one in every three murdered people in Rio de Janeiro was killed by a police officer.
In fact, 2019 was the year in which the highest number of fatalities by police officers in Rio de Janeiro was recorded since the figures began to be analyzed in 1998, according to the national survey conducted by G1 journalists.
And furthermore, every 84 minutes, less than an hour and a half, the police kill a person in Brazil. A reality that worsens every year. Since 2012, when this type of data began to become available for reference, up until 2018, homicides committed by police increased 166.7 percent.
Shocking data that, according to the G1, portray a Brazil that “relies on violence to solve the problem of public safety”.
Source: G1
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