Police, politics and democracy in Brazil
Police, politics and democracy in Brazil

Summary/Abstract: This essay has as subject the police, even in the plural, once there are different organizations that will fulfil the same role, generically defined as order maintenance. Especially because we get into the complex question of what it means to maintain order, since we are faced with great variations present, for example, in the debate on democracy and authoritarianism, and which are articulated to political traditions as well as to cultures and societies, and the complicated relations between the State, governments and different social classes. Due to the limitations of the text and its authors, we will approach the organization and dynamics of the Brazilian police, although, necessarily, we make references and comparisons with other police models.ween the State, governments and different social classes.

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