We already know that their new President is much like President Trump - dig out the rot in the deep state and restore law and order. He was elected by a landslide as the Brazilian citizens were tired of their nation turning into a third-world shit-hole. Brazil used to be a major economy and a gorgeous place until socialism reared its ugly head. Now, the nation is on the mend.
Great news from Bloomberg:
License-to-Kill Policing to Get a Trial Run in Rio de Janeiro
Teams of marksmen next year will patrol swaths of Rio de Janeiro with high-powered weapons and a license to kill, said a security adviser to Governor-elect Wilson Witzel.
As many as 120 sharpshooters will accompany police incursions into the slums of Brazil’s postcard city to exterminate gun-toting criminals, according to Flavio Pacca, a longtime associate of Witzel who the governor-elect’s press office said will join the administration. The shooters will work in pairs -- one to pull the trigger, one to monitor conditions and videotape deaths.
“The protocol will be to immediately neutralize, slaughter anyone who has a rifle,” Witzel, a federal judge and former Brazilian marine, told reporters in Brasilia on Dec. 12. “Whoever has a rifle isn’t worried about other people’s lives, they’re ready to eliminate anyone who crosses their path. This is a grave problem, not just in Rio de Janeiro, but also in other states.”
Rio has long exemplified Brazil’s charm and its chaos, and what happens there echoes at home and abroad. Like President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, Witzel cruised to victory in October promising a brutal crackdown on criminals who make daily life a harrowing ordeal. Rio will be a proving ground for Bolsonaro’s philosophy of maximum force -- and whether law enforcement devolves into a storm of extrajudicial killings.
And they certainly need to do something:
Rio’s homicides last year surged to an eight-year high of 5,346 and robberies and muggings have more than doubled since 2011.
Some numbers. Rio has a population of 6.32 Million, Chicago, Illinois has a population of 2.7 Million. Chicago (year to date) has had 578 homicides.
Rio: 1 homicide per 1,182 citizens. Chicago: 1 homicide per 4,671 citizens so Rio is just under four times (3.95) more dangerous and Chicago.
Chicago is not the murder capital of the US - St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit and New Orleans edge out Chicago for that title but there is not much difference in the stats.
Just a little bit more - I love the quote in the last paragraph:
Bolsonaro has said cops who kill should be given medals and has promised they will be legally protected. Days after the election, video showed Rio police loading the limp, bleeding bodies of two young men accused of drug trafficking into the bed of a pick-up. Bystanders cheered, with one yelling Bolsonaro’s name.
“The NGOs, human rights activists and United Nations will have a fit,” Alexandre Frota, a congressman-elect, said on Twitter while sharing the video. “But the cleansing must be done.’’
Emphasis mine - indeed and it will be fun to see them squirm in their seats. I bet that crime goes waaay down after a few of these goblins are taken out. Waaaaaaaay down.
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