Rio de Janeiro Registers Seventy Shootings During Carnival
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - As the revelry and excitement of Carnival 2019 comes to...
March 7, 2019Topic
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Over Five Hundred Women Beaten Per Hour in Brazil Says New Study
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - According to a new survey from the Brazilian Public Security...
February 27, 2019
Tourists Robbed at Gunpoint on Rio’s Corcovado Trail
Three men robbed approximately forty tourists hiking the trail that connects Parque Lage and the Corcovado mountain in Zona Sul...
January 4, 2019
Highway Police Report 327% Increase in Drug Seizures in Rio
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Federal Highway Police (PRF) seized more than twelve tons...
November 8, 2018
Court Finds 12 Police Officers in Rio Guilty of Robbery and Extortion
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Four years after a group of Rio police officers were...
September 26, 2018
Angra dos Reis in Rio State Declares Public Security Emergency
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The mayor of Angra dos Reis, Fernando Jordão, declared a...
August 22, 2018
Rio de Janeiro Sees Thefts Decline, but Homicides Increase
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Data released yesterday (August 14th) by the Institute of Public...
August 15, 2018
Brazilian Governors Demand Promised Funds For Public Security
In March President Temer announced R$42 million in funds to states as part of the federal government’s National Public Security...
May 21, 2018
Rio Police Call Off Search for Missing UK Rapper Kenny Vulcan
Rio police officials are calling off the search for Kenny Vulcan, missing in Rio since April 13th, theorizing that the...
April 30, 2018