Aspectos simbólicos, políticos e práticos da letalidade policial no Rio de Janeiro e em São Paulo durante o governo Bolsonaro

Abstract

The problem that moves this article is to expose which symbolic, political and practical effects of a discursive synergy of state governments of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo with the administration federal government of the Bolsonaro government, regarding police lethality as public security policy. Initially, some quantitative and qualitative elements of police lethality in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, after the re-democratization. In a second moment the relationship between discursive synergy and symbolic, political and practical effects on police lethality, in a context in which, despite disputes in the traditional political arena, the state administrations of the Witzel Government and the Doria Government and the federal administration of the Bolsonaro government reproduce a the same logic of support for police violence as a tool for public security. Finally, it is presented, as considerations Finally, a scenario for the formation of a political body that reproduces and obsessed with bloodthirsty logic, imagined as a tactic able to achieve a sense of security and total freedom from violence and crime, so that the death of the other by the police assumes a collective meaning of symbolic, political and practical adherence to barbarism as a criminal policy