Lethality of Police Action: Analysis of the Performance of the Public Ministry of Alagoas, 2016 to 2020
letalidade policial; violência policial; Ministério Público
Brazil is in reprehensible evidence due to the high lethality in police actions that are expands year after year without the development of an effective policy for its containment. In possibility of verifying illegalities and police abuses, the activity of the Public Prosecutor's Office, which is responsible for external control of police activity, including both the monitoring of investigative processes conducted by the police, as to the performance of the police practice itself, being characterized by independence and authority on decisions to file or denounce decisions in cases of various natures Criminal. Based on the hypothesis that there is a nod from the Public Prosecutor's Office before the involving police lethality, this research proposed to verify the performance of the Ministry public of Alagoas in the face of cases of death by intervention of an agent of the State, through the statistical and qualitative analysis of the processes of this nature, whose time frame encompassed the between 2016 and 2020. After the procedural analysis, interviews were conducted semi-structured with police delegates and prosecutors, aiming to understand and the results found in documentary research. Low-quality processes filed with little or no evidential evidence, criminalization of victims by their associated with illicit activities, witnesses who are silenced when they diverge from the police statements or witnesses who are silenced due to the "law of silence" arising from the fear and strongly present in the State, make up the universe of lethal actions in Alagoas, grouping to the reality found in other Brazilian states.