As relações entre a polícia militar e a sociedade na ótica das relações raciais e dos direitos humanos na cidade de Varginha-MG

Abstract

The performance of the Military Police in Brazil is a theme composed by several opposing aspects, such as the kind of police created, it's institutionalization, the actions of the police agents, among others. The violence is inseparable from the police daily life and that affects all individuals, whether women, men, black or white people. In the case of black people, specifically, there is a list of more drastic consequences, such as the Second 11th Brazilian Public Security Yearbook: in 2016 4,222 people were killed in police actions, 76.2% of them black and 453 police victims of homicide in 2016, 56% were black (FÓRUM…, 2017). Considering these data, the general objective was to identify the development of racial and institutional relations in the military police at Varginha-MG in relation to their external working environment, from the perspective of military police officers of Varginha; and as specific objectives: to understand how the racial and institutional relations occur within the environment of the Minas Gerais Military Police in the city of Varginha and in society; raise the profile of police approach according to the understanding of police officers; identify how race relations and human rights issues are viewed by police officers. For this, five interviews were conducted with police officers from Varginha-MG and the data analyzed through Critical Discourse Analysis. It was possible to conclude that police officers have a knowledge of justice within the corporation, always arguing about equal treatment, but reflected some speeches that showed that they still repeat somewhat violent attitudes based on racista stereotypes.