Police Killings are Out of Control in Rio de Janeiro

Expand Policemen patrol the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro on September 14, 2012. © 2012 Reuters In January, the military police of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro pledged to reduce killings by its officers by 20 percent by the end of the year. But from January to July, the number of police killings actually increased by 39 percent, as compared with the same period last year. Military and civil police killed 895 people during those months. At the current rate, the state will have its bloodiest year in more than a decade. Some do not see this as a problem. There is a persistent view…

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