👮 A law-and-order plot twist

What Brazilians really want when it comes to public security. Flávio Bolsonaro must answer to his own party in today’s showdown meeting.

In this issue:

• What Brazilians really want when it comes to public security.

• Flávio Bolsonaro must answer to his own party in today’s showdown meeting.

Brazilians want safer streets. Not an iron fist

Ahead of this year’s general elections in Brazil, public security has become the trump card. Candidates from across the country (and the political spectrum) are campaigning on promises of body counts, harsher sentences and the slogan “a good criminal is a dead criminal” — a phrase so well-worn it now functions as electoral shorthand.

But a new survey commissioned by Sou da Paz Institute, a São Paulo-based public-safety NGO, suggests that consensus is more performative than real.