Report: Brazilian anti-crime measures are failing

Human rights group Amnesty International released a report today criticizing Brazil’s government for their woeful lack of security around the country. The report mentions the "patchwork of violent fiefdoms” found in the slums of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and denounced the increased militarization of police forces to combat crime.

The report (which can be read in its entirety here) goes on to make several recommendations on how to lower violence in Brazil including:

• “the introduction of human-rights based policing”
• prison reform
• programs to lower extrajudicial killings

Links- Amnesty International, Newsday, Reuters AlertNet

Image- Guardian UK