Desconhecido: The prevailing idea remains that the only possible response to people's fear is a hard-line discourse.
Desconhecido: As if, to confront radical positions on this issue, it were necessary to adopt the same radical premises and the same violent, populist vocabulary.
When, in fact, it is essential to overcome this view of how public security is communicated, especially because the data show a different reality.
Desconhecido: Research carried out by Instituto Sou da Paz, which interviewed 1,115 people in 40 Brazilian municipalities, reveals that only 20% of the population agrees with the idea that 'a good criminal is a dead criminal.'
Desconhecido: And, in fact, 73% agree that no criminal should go unpunished.