The cases of police deaths in the city of Belém-Pará-Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
The cases of police deaths in the city of Belém-Pará-Brazil
Received 15th October, 2018; Received in revised form 29th November, 2018; Accepted 03rd December, 2018; Published online 30th January, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Thays Suelen Brito Santos et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Police action is critical because it prevents, represses, and neutralizes criminal activities to ensure security. Police mortality in the state of Pará, Brazil, is a worrying factor, since the occurence of such crimes only increase, mainly in the capital Belém. In view of the invisibility of this issue, and of the constant murders that occurred after the death of a police officer, this paper seeks to present and analyze the characteristics of the facts and the number of homicides registered in the 72 hours before and after the deaths of the policemen under study. We used the exploratory data analysis technique to organize and describe the data. On the whole, one may conclude that, once this type of violence is understood and detected, the State must adopt and promote new practices and structured actions aiming to interrupt or minimize such violent crimes.
