The worst is, unfortunately, this humiliation will not cease. Such assurance is closely related to the reaction of the authorities responsible for the public security of the country. The speech, unfortunately, is the same we have already heard in other events, when general riot reached São Paulo. From the Congress, the eternal opportunists meet to vote “stricter” laws; the news is that, now the speech came from the president of the Republic.
As usual, politicians and authorities do not think in real solutions. They prefer the easy demagogue speech that, unfortunately, pleases the most part of the population. Even slogan is the same: “zero tolerance”, or rather, “zero tolerance plan”: increase of penalties, new crimes and “reduction of privileges” granted to prisoners. It has been like this for 20 years, and the worst is, with such measures, all of this will be repeated in the next 20 years.
Facing the organized crime and prison disorganization is arduous and is not resolved by interviewing authorities, or with “stricter” measures. It results in the creation of a criminal police plan, in the preparation of strategies to fight against organized crime, in the distribution of funds to such fight, in the construction of new prisons and in the creation of a plan which purpose is to close these schools of crimes that prisons have become, and yet the obvious measures related to education, work, social investments, etc.
Sociology teaches us that the law is only one of the mechanisms of social control, next to education, religion, moral, minimum conditions of citizenship, among others. The problem will never be resolved individually. Speaking now on improvement of the prison conditions, with intelligent alternatives to put an end to the real factory of thieves is to be accused of defending “thieves´ human rights”, as the human rights (yes, of human being) could be divided into categories.
There is no – and there has never been – a real crime policy which purpose is to reduce the crimes. Despite violence is one of the main concerns of the society, the governments do not have a strategy to deal with the problem in the next five years. We live from improvisation, easy speech, the most complete ignorance on the subject.
There is no – and there has never been – a joint performance of the federal and state polices which purpose is to combat drug trafficking, arms smuggling and organized crime.
The federal police, under the false premise that the drug trafficking is of state responsibility (as the supply would not occur through the international trafficking), delegates the combat to the state policies, in most cases limited to arrest drug dealers in airports. Meanwhile, the federal polices deal with invasions of companies, with the purpose of combating tax evasion, illegal transfer of funds abroad, corruption. In other words, the priority has been to protect exchequer. Indeed, it is much easier invade Daslu than combating traffic and organized crime, surrendering the PCC.
The protection to the exchequer, the combat to evasion and corruption are fundamental measures, but they cannot present themselves as the sole priorities, leaving aside the PCC, Comando Vermelho and Terceiro Comando. Actually, we need of effective combat to these criminal organizations.
It is evident the fact that the Federal Police has a serious device to listen to phone calls, being frightened that only after the crisis established in São Paulo, such devices have been placed at the disposal of the State Police to hear the plans of the criminals. Therefore, we wait for “PCC operation, “Comando Vermelho operation” accompanied by the effective presentation of a plan of combat to the crime, passing away the isolate preparation of laws.
Finally, we need the cold analysis of the events followed by an intelligent strategy, of funds enabling a thorough investigation concerning the organized crime. As all this is known and has never been considered, it is possible to really affirm that the worse it yet to come.
