(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 27 - In order to try to prevent, or at least inhibit the 'easy trigger' of many agents in Brazil, the police and the military serving public order in some of the most populous states will begin to equip policemen with mandatory body-cams, subjective cameras to be attached to the uniform when on duty.
The violence of the police and security forces, mirroring that of gangs and drug trafficking, is now almost no longer news in Brazil, where only in 2020, the victims of agents - who are sometimes suspected to act as real squadrons - are reported of death - amount to 6.00. last weekend a raid in a favela in Rio left nine corpses on the ground, last May in an attack between the barracks of Jacarezinho, where crime lurks, with the use of armored cars, the dead were as many as 28.
In the state of Sao Paulo, the most populous, agents have already started experimenting with the use of body-cams for over a year and the first statistics show a certain decline in the number of victims.
"We still have a long way to go, but the reduction in the lethal use of force is already quite marked," Col.
Robson Cabanas, military commander of Sao Paulo.
The state of Rio has ordered 22,000 body cams but they have not yet entered service.
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