“Good Cops Are Afraid”

A military police armored vehicle passes by a person killed by police on April 7, 2016 in the Jacarezinho favela. Military police killed two other people during the same raid. © 2016 Carlos Cout

2016-07-americas-brazil-photoMônica Aparecida Corrêa shows the certificate of enlistment into the Navy of her son, Cleiton Corrêa de Souza, 18.

Mônica Aparecida Corrêa shows the certificate of enlistment into the Navy of her son, Cleiton Corrêa de Souza, 18. He was about to start training when police officers killed him and four other friends on November 28, 2015. The police officers said they responded to fire from inside the car where the five young men where traveling. However, witnesses said to civil police investigators that they saw one of the officers place a gun in the hand of one of the bodies and forensic experts concluded none of the five men killed had fired a gun. © 2016 César Muñoz Acebes/Human Rights Watch

The Mangueira favela on January 14, 2016.

The Complexo do Alemão favela on November 26, 2015.

Adriana Pérez da Silva shows a picture of her son, Carlos Eduardo da Silva Souza, 16. Police officers fired and killed him and four other friends who were in the same car, on their way to have a snack together on November 28, 2015. © 2016 César Muñoz Acebes/Human Rights Watch

Cleiton Corrêa de Souza´s identity card. De Souza, 18, died on November 28, 2015, after police officers opened fire at the car he was riding in with four friends. © 2016 César Muñoz Acebes/Human Rights Watch

Jorge Augusto Vieira cries when he looks at a t-shirt with the pictures of five friends killed by police on November 28, 2015. One of them was his stepson Cleiton Corrêa de Souza, 18. © 2016 César Muñoz Acebes/Human Rights Watch

Military police officer Wallace Justo talks to a child at the Mangueira favela on January 14, 2016. © 2016 César Muñoz Acebes/Human Rights Watch

“A good cop is a dead cop.” The message was written on January 14, 2016 on a wall by a soccer court at the Mangueira favela, where police officers from the local Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) go play with local children. © 2016 César Muñoz Acebes/Human Rights Watch

Children play with kites at the Mangueira favela on January 14, 2016.

Military police Major Roberto Valente, commander of the Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) at the Morro da Providência favela, holds a meeting with the local community on December 15, 2015 to inform residents of the activities of the police in 2015 and hear their comments and complaints. Major Valente says armed confrontation is not an effective strategy to fight crime and highlights the importance of crime prevention, which he says is his main focus at the UPP he commands. © 2015 César Muñoz Acebes/Human Rights Watch

A military police officer cleans the area around the Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) at the Mangueira favela on January 14, 2016. The UPP is made of metal shipping containers. © 2016 César Muñoz Acebes/Human Rights Watch

Two residents of theComplexo do Alemão favela walk on November 26, 2015 by graffiti that asks: “Where is Amarildo?” Amarildo de Souza, a 47-year-old construction laborer disappeared after police took him to the Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) at Rocinha favela in July 2013. In February 2016, 12 police officers, including the UPP commander, were convicted of torturing Amarildo to death. His disappearance became a watershed moment for the deterioration of many communities’ confidence in UPPs. © 2015 César Muñoz Acebes/Human Rights Watch

A boy plays in the Mangueira favela on January 14, 2016.

Military police officers Thiago Castro (l) and Wallace Justo (r) play with children at the Mangueira favela on January 14, 2016.© 2016 César Muñoz Acebes/Human Rights Watch

Still from an amateur video showing Claudia Silva Ferreira being dragged by a police patrol car on March 16, 2014. The video is available here: Carolina Heringer, Ligia Modena, and Roberta Hoertel, “Viatura da PM arrastra mulher por rua da zona norte,” Extra, March 17, 2014, http://extra.globo.com/casos-de-policia/viatura-da-pm-arrasta-mulher-por-rua-da-zona-norte-do-rio-veja-video-11896179.html (accessed June 22, 2016).

Military police officers Roberta Moreira and Wallace Justo walk through one of the trails at Mangueira favela on January 14, 2016. Members of the local Pacifying Police Unit (UPP), they carry out social projects with children to try to gain the community´s trust. © 2016 César Muñoz Acebes/Human Rights Watch

The video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGiurjOuGTs&feature=youtu.be (accessed June 22, 2016).

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