Military and civil police officers on duty killed 142 people in the first quarter of 2026 in São Paulo, five more than in the same period of 2025. The numbers are part of an upward trend that began in 2023, during Tarcísio de Freitas' administration.
The numbers are part of an upward trend in police lethality that began in 2023, under Governor Tarcísio de Freitas, reversing a decline that had occurred in the previous administration. Between 2019 and 2022, deaths by military police officers on duty fell from 720 to 262, but from 2023 onwards the numbers began rising annually again.
The data was compiled by Agência Brasil based on a report from the São Paulo State Prosecutor's Office
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The president of the State Council for the Defense of Human Rights stated that there is a social apartheid targeting Black people and those from the periphery
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