Wednesday 8 February 2012
Dark carnival
"In Salvador and the rest of Brazil's northeast, the economic progress has brought an unwelcome consequence - skyrocketing crime. Fueled by a growing drug trade, an inflow of poor migrants and still lingering inequality between the region's haves and have-nots, northeastern cities regularly rank among the most violent in Brazil.
"The management of public security there is a failure," Jose Vicente da Silva, a retired police colonel and former national security secretary, said in a televised interview on Tuesday."
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Salvador has long been one of Brazil's most violent cities, but I can sympathise with the police who in fairness are not paid a living wage which contributes enormously to the crime problem nationwide. In contrast, countries such as the UK with low crime rates pay policemen generous salaries and have relatively low crime and low corruption
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Yes, far oo generous in the UK when it comes to the salary and pensions of the top brass at the Met !!
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