Segurança pública e questão racial no Brasil: uma análise a partir da necropolítica

Abstract

With the gates of farms and large houses open, the ex-Brazilian captives found themselves utterly unassisted, given the indifference of the State, which promoted the arrival of immigrants to Brazil, seeking to occupy the spaces of inclusion in the emerging local capitalism. Faced with this fact, Brazilian social problems evolved with population growth, resulting in substantial rates of poverty, misery and violence. To deal with violations of legal codes, resulting from the choices of the dominant classes, the Brazilian State has always adopted a set of policies of repression, ranging from the imposition of the death penalty only for enslaved people, forced labor, militarization of forces of repression and, more recently, the progression of the use of technologies aimed at the annihilation of transgressors, mostly young blacks. This paper questions how an orientation towards public security based on necropolitical tendencies defies the fundamental principles contained in the Magna Carta of the Federative Republic of Brazil. Using the method of approaching legal hermeneutics, and a historical-monographic procedure, the work leads the author to conclude that the affront to the fundamental principles of the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil occurs in different ways, engendering strategies of criminalization of black people, at the same time as they operate by reducing investments in education and in social programs aimed at assistance, health and promotion of autonomy.