Renan Santos: There are governors who have already tried to make this confrontation, but they are subject to penal law,
Renan Santos: and the laws of penal enforcement, which it's the prerogative of the National Congress and of the Presidency of the Republic to alter.
So when they tried the UPPs in Rio de Janeiro, as good an initiative as it was, at the end of the day, if they didn't change the penal laws and the Code of Criminal Procedure, it didn't solve anything.
Renan Santos: If they couldn't decree the state of defense that allowed BOPE to enter people's homes where sometimes a criminal was hiding, it wouldn't work, as it didn't.
Renan Santos: So the Executive Branch has to create a legal framework and act together with the state police, with the governors.