"PRECISAMOS CONSTRUIR UMA ALCATRAZ BRASILEIRA" | Romeu Zema no Metrópoles
Debate with Romeu Zema · 100 statements transcribed and classified · about public safety and order, judiciary, social policy, monetary policy. Click a statement to hear that moment in the video.
"PRECISAMOS CONSTRUIR UMA ALCATRAZ BRASILEIRA" | Romeu Zema no Metrópoles
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100 statements- Neutral
Romeu Zema
About: reduce homicides in the country
"Well, Capelli, Brazil, unfortunately, has been the world champion in homicides for decades."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: combat organized crime and strengthen public security
"And a government that talks so much about the social seems to me to be not at all involved in wanting to improve this issue."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: coordinate state and federal actions to combat organized crime
"We need to mobilize the State — when I say State, it's the municipality, it's the state government, it's the federal government — against these factions."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: increase penalties for violent crimes
"This increase in penalties is a very big step forward."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: require full enforcement of sentences and restrict benefits for prisoners
"Ending any kind of privilege, like temporary leave, sentence reduction, etc."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: classify PCC and CV as terrorist organizations
"I would like the organizations to be classified as terrorists."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: establish international cooperation to combat organized crime
"I think Brazil even needs international cooperation to combat them."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: increase penalties for violent crimes
"What this government wants, in my view, is to eliminate any aggravation of penalty, to do nothing with regard to crime."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: support police operations confronting organized crime
"In my opinion, that was an efficient police operation."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: automatically arrest anyone who breaks an electronic ankle monitor
"One of them: whoever removes their electronic ankle monitor will have their arrest automatically ordered."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: keep criminals detained
"Those with more than three police records for the same offense should not be released at the custody hearing."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: guarantee freedom of approach and action for police officers
"And the third point, also very simple, is that the police officer have freedom to carry out stops."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: create and strengthen interstate consortia for cooperation in public security
"And the Consortium for Peace, as you asked, is based on that COSUD working group, and we are inviting other governors, especially those from the right, who want to join."
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: authorize integrated operations of foreign forces in Brazilian territory to combat criminal organizations
"Would you allow, for example, the United States to conduct integrated operations in Brazil to fight Comando Vermelho and the PCC?"
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: allow international intelligence cooperation and provision of equipment to combat drug trafficking
"I say this because... After the operation in Rio de Janeiro, the United States Drug Enforcement Department sent a letter to the Rio de Janeiro Secretary of Public Security, Vitor dos Santos, making themselves available to, quote, do whatever is necessary to combat drug trafficking."
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: allow international intelligence cooperation and provision of equipment to combat drug trafficking
"This gave rise to many questions — what would this action be, anyway."
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: authorize integrated operations of foreign forces in Brazilian territory to combat criminal organizations
"If elected president, would you like to have U.S. operational forces combating drug trafficking here in Brazil?"
- For
Romeu Zema
About: establish international cooperation to combat organized crime
"Now, if there is often a humanitarian tragedy and there is international aid — Brazil itself has gone to help, I've already sent firefighters to Central America, to Africa, in several natural disasters — why not have that international and American assistance as well to combat something?"
- Neutral
Romeu Zema
About: combat organized crime
"Now here in Brazil, we are having a natural tragedy every day."
- Neutral
Romeu Zema
About: combat organized crime
"It's 100, 120 Brazilians who lose their lives daily."
- Against
Romeu Zema
About: authorize international cooperation in combating organized crime
"And we will not refuse that help, whether from Germany, the United States, Mexico, or whoever it may be."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: authorize international cooperation in combating organized crime
"If it's to contribute to fighting organized crime, it will be welcome."
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: authorize integrated operations of foreign forces in Brazilian territory to combat criminal organizations
"For example, actions by the United States on the ground?"
- For
Romeu Zema
About: limit international cooperation to intelligence sharing and provision of equipment
"I see it as much more a matter of intelligence and equipment, also because our military police know their territories far better, they know much more how things work here."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: provide equipment and technology to Brazilian security forces
"Many things could include that cooperation to contribute to combating organized crime."
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: classify PCC and CV as terrorist organizations
"An interesting point is that by classifying these drug trafficking organizations as terrorists, faction members of Comando Vermelho, IPCC, who were arrested in the United States, could be sent to the Secote prison in El Salvador, which is designated exclusively for terrorists."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: sign agreements to transfer gang members to maximum-security prisons abroad
"So, we could make an agreement, since it's an international agreement, with El Salvador, send the faction members from here to the Secote, there in El Salvador."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: sign agreements to transfer gang members to maximum-security prisons abroad
"Have you thought that, fine, these criminals wouldn't even stay in Brazil, right — being transferred to a maximum-security prison in a country that is very far away, where they wouldn't even have a cell phone signal from here."
- Neutral
Romeu Zema
About: increase rigor in combating crime and incarcerating criminals
"An example of a country that, within the space of three years, managed to reduce homicides by 99%."
- Neutral
Romeu Zema
About: classify criminal factions as terrorist organizations and deploy federal forces
"They built the Secote, changed the law, every faction member, every criminal organization was equated with terrorists, and everyone is imprisoned."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: adopt security measures modeled on El Salvador
"I spoke there, during the three days I was there, with more than 50 people."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: adopt crime-fighting practices inspired by successful cases abroad
"So you can see that there are things that work, but it seems the media here in Brazil doesn't much like to show those things that succeed against criminality."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: build maximum-security prisons
"Well, if that's not possible, I think we would have to build at least one Secote in the middle of the Amazon rainforest."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: classify members of criminal organizations as terrorists
"And to say 'terrorist,' 'member of a criminal organization'—they will now stay here, in this Brazilian Secote here, with no access to anything, totally isolated."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: build maximum-security prisons
"First, isolated, with only a landing strip, and heavily armed against any unauthorized aircraft that might arrive there."
- For
Romeu Zema
About: build maximum-security prisons
"And anyone who tried to escape certainly would not survive in the forest."
- For
Desconhecido
About: implement social and inclusion policies in vulnerable communities to prevent crime
"we have to say, Bernardo, it's like this: it's not enough just for the police to go in with rifles and carry out operations like the one they did in Rio de Janeiro."
- For
Desconhecido
About: implement social and inclusion policies in vulnerable communities to prevent crime
"There has to be public policy within those communities."
- Neutral
Desconhecido
About: implement social and inclusion policies in vulnerable communities to prevent crime
"When there were the pacifying police units in Rio de Janeiro, during Sérgio Cabral's government, the criminals were expelled from those hills, from those favelas, but there was no public policy for the people."
- For
Desconhecido
About: invest in public programs and infrastructure even in impoverished areas
"To offer quality services to these people who need them, who are in these poorer areas."
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