Dane Avanzi, Special to the Daily Morning
The Public Security is one of the issues of concern to the Brazilians, considering that we have comparable rates of murders to countries at war . Experts from various fields indicated that the main causes of the difficult situation we live in, many different reasons for the increase in crime, among them the lack of investment in education, the Brazilian judicial structure in which there are two policemen with little synergy within state (civil and military), among others. Although all the above views are consistent, add to them, that we change to positively reality, we need a lot of investment. Yes, investment in materials and training of police. I think historically invested little in the sector and this fact enabled the consolidation and expansion of organized crime across the country.
In Minas Gerais, for example, according to IBGE data, violence and accidents were the major causes of deaths among young people and adolescents in the state in 2013. The IBGE survey also reveals that the highest percentage of men of deaths occur in groups of 15 to 24 years, especially for violent and accidental causes.
This and other data support the thesis that the Brazilian State and to invest little, when it does, spends bad, and due to the poor quality of investment – it can not come good fruit – the result is generally low or insignificant. With respect to public safety, for example, high crime rates are directly related to the lack of strategy and wits to fight crime.
Just to illustrate the point, it is worth mentioning that in the episode of the attack of the Boston Marathon the police, thanks to a closed-circuit camera of high street stores, could in a few hours to identify and arrest those responsible for the attack, which the detonation of the bomb used the mobile phone network. As a reminder, both here and there, criminals use the very best in technology. The difference is that there the state also has the best featur es and here, our police force in general has nothing or when there is scrapped or dead. As expected a satisfactory result in a state that the police live favor to eat or supply a car?
Such a response to crime in record time was only possible thanks to technological resources and trained police officers who had as allies technology and intelligence. In this case, the evil can not be mitigated given that there were casualties and many wounded, but the identification and arrest of the criminals are per se incisive responses of society against terrorism in the case. Most subliminal message of all is that the state protects citizens and punishes those who act against the law. The feeling that there is justice, discourages crime, while the sense of coercive impotence, encourages impunity. – In my view, more perverse symptom of what happens in Brazil
this context, when it comes to strategy and intelligence, and technical and trained and qualified professionals, th e state needs appropriate technological tools to fight crime. Today many of them could be helping the police solve and even prevent the commission of crimes. The range of technology is great, with emphasis big data software, which relate to social networking activity to facts and evidence of criminal activity, video cameras (fixed, mobile and portable) use of drones (which approval by Anatel and ANAC, are pending in Brazil).
excess State bureaucracy is one of the factors that delay the country, so no one doubt, but when it takes on the likes of regulation technology, unlike other niche markets, the bureaucracy multiplies, there are rare cases in addition to licenses and approvals from various bodies of the Union, the same equipment to be used also need licenses and State permits and sometimes even municipal. Does a case of relevant public interest for Brazilian society, given the chaos we live in, the constituted authorities could not create licensing mechanisms and si mplified approval for the Armed Forces? I think so. In fact, not only could, as they should and must do so.
(Dane Avanzi is a lawyer, managing director of the Institute
Avanzi and director of Átimo Solutions)
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