In what way has the issue of Public Security been raised in the political agenda of municipalities that are remote from the axes of capitals and metropolitan regions? This is the major question to which the present research relates, whose first result is a panorama of the signs of the municipal protagonism in relation to Public Security policies in the Southern Zone of Rio Grande do Sul (RS). Based on categories such as the traditional security model and model with citizenship, data are analyzed regarding the candidatures to the Executive Power of 27 municipalities in the years 2012 and 2016, as well as the institutionalization of instances favoring political protagonism. The results allow us to propose that the Public Safety agenda consolidated its entry into the scope of municipal political disputes, although it still constitutes a theme of tense discourses and strategies polarized by divergent models and paradigms.
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar cómo la militarización y el legalismo de las instituciones policiales brasileñas afectan su rol y la gestión de la criminalidad en Brasil. Esta característica doble del sistema brasileño mantendría una funcionalidad que regula, de forma cualitativa, la proporcionalidad del uso de la fuerza y la capacidad de procesar delitos ante la Justicia. Se verifica cómo esas estructuras se mantuvieron desde el inicio de la Nueva República, y se concluye que la militarización y el legalismo de los cuerpos de seguridad policial siguen imprimiendo los límites de la acción gubernamental mientras se amplifican salidas individualistas y conservacionistas como horizontes meta-políticos para tratar la criminalidad.
