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Most of the numbers about brazilian police are totally out of place and don't count the way our country is right now about violence.

We got the highest homicide count on the planet, being a country that banned guns. That, for sure, makes police more agressive.

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How can those numbers be 'out of place'? Just last month the state of São Paulo started to remove assassinations by the police from the official murder stats [1] to make it look like things are getting better.

Also:

"Between January and November in 2014, 816 people were murdered by military police officers in the state of São Paulo." - and it did not reduce crime [2]

[1] http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2015/11/1704292-morte...

[2] http://ponte.org/pm-de-sp-bate-recorde-de-mortes-e-nao-reduz...

Do you realize we got a civil war in Brazil, where 60k people die every year?

It's the media like CNN that make my blood boil. I am not sure why Trump is in every other story on the international channel. Actual reporting does not sell.

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