Tag: Sao Paulo state police

• Thursday, November 3rd 2016 - 09:35 UTC

  Brazilian police killed an average of nine people per day during 2015

  

  An average of nine people were killed per day at the hands of Brazil's notoriously violent police force in 2015, an increase from last year despite a nationwide drop in murder rates. In 2015, 3,345 people were allegedly killed during “police interventions” across Brazil, up 6.3% from the previous year's count of 3,146. The statistics come from the 10th Public Security Yearbook published by the Brazilian Forum on Public Security.

• Monday, June 9th 2014 - 21:10 UTC

  Clashes in Sao Paulo between striking subway workers and riot police

  

  Police in Sao Paulo fired tear gas Monday to disperse protesters supporting a subway strike that has unleashed transport chaos three days before the Brazilian mega-city hosts the World Cup kick-off.

• Wednesday, January 15th 2014 - 00:09 UTC

  Fears in Brazil: police group apparently involve on vengeance killing rampage

  

  Twelve people were killed in the Brazilian city of Campinas, the second biggest in São Paulo state, on Sunday night with police investigating if the murders were linked. All of the murders occurred during a three-hour period in the Ouro Verde area, in the city’s periphery, and were followed by the torching of three buses and a car by hooded men.

• Monday, November 26th 2012 - 23:32 UTC

  Brazil’s largest city replaces all chiefs of police to contain an escalating wave of killings

  

  The chiefs of police in Sao Paulo were replaced on Monday as Brazil's largest city emerged from a bloody weekend and authorities struggled to contain a wave of violence that has doubled the murder rate in recent months.

• Monday, November 26th 2012 - 04:35 UTC

  Sao Paulo City gripped in a “civil war” between organized crime and the police, says top Judge

  

  A Brazilian magistrate described the wave of killings in Sao Paulo city as a ‘civil war’ between organized crime and unsupported police forces to which the local population is closing its eyes.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2012 - 18:56 UTC

  Street killings and violence in Sao Paulo knock out the state’s head of security

  

  The head of the Sao Paulo state police who held the post for seven years quit Wednesday amid a surge of deadly violence in Brazil’s largest city and the industrial and financial hub of the country.