Demilitarization of the Police, Criminal Policy and Human Rights in the Democratic Rule of Law

• Main Authors: Igor Frederico Fontes de Lima, Ilzver de Matos Oliveira
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI) 2016-10-01
• Series: Revista de Criminologias e Politicas Criminais
• Subjects: Desmilitarização, Polícia, Política, Estado democrático de direito
• Online Access: http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistacpc/article/view/285

This article proposes a reflection on the incompatibility between the militarization of the police and the democratic rule of law. Seeing the violent mechanisms such as routine, relates to public safety model with Agamben's teachings on the state of exception as the rule. The culture of fear is seen as legitimizing the social longing for more militarized apparatus. Reconnecting Bauman, Zaffaroni and Foucault , the work points out that criminal policy is based on the annihilation of the other and that the penal system is extremely selective, using the PM's for vertical integration and standardization of acceptable profiles.