Violência institucional e o silenciamento dos corpos negros (São Paulo, 2002 – 2015)

Abstract

This dissertation presents the results of the research on the serious violations, abuse of legality and high lethality committed by the Brazilian State through the action of its police agents against the black population, taking as a particularity the performance of both the Military and Civil Police in the city of São Paulo in the period between 2002 and 2015. Based on structural racism and with the traditional justification of maintaining order and public security, these actions constitute patterns of conduct, resulting from the massacres, summary executions, enforced disappearances and deaths in custody, deepening institutional violence. This scenario is enhanced by certain types of influencing media in the configuration of a public opinion that naturalizes such violence, thus fostering the inequalities that keep the black population in a constant situation of vulnerability. In order to present the materiality of this practice, the investigations were carried out based on data collected from sources of official bodies such as IPEA / Atlas of Violence - Institute of Applied Economic Research and SIM / MS - Mortality Information System - Ministry of Health, the OVP-SP database, among others. From this documentation, we were able to show the violent performance of the Military Police of São Paulo in the period from 2002 - 2015