InSight Crime accompanied Rio’s elite military police squad as it occupied one of the city’s biggest and most violent favelas, the latest operation in the “pacification” scheme as Vila Kennedy’s Police Pacification Unit (UPP) becomes the 38th installed since 2008. However as promised social investment fails to materialize, critics are pointing to recent outbreaks of violence in other pacified favelas as evidence that a one-dimensional security approach cannot have long-term success.
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