Brazil: Police Killed 11,000 People Over Five-Year Period, Report Says
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSNOV. 11, 2014
The Brazilian police killed more than 11,000 people from 2009 to 2013, for an average of six killings a day, a public safety organization said Tuesday in a report. The study by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, which is based in São Paulo, said police officers nationwide had killed 11,197 people over the past five years, while law enforcement agents in the United States had killed 11,090 people over the past 30 years. “The empirical evidence shows that Brazilian police make abusive use of lethal force to respond to crime and violence,” the report said.