Sérgio Moro: Crime is, usually, a rational activity. It is a mixture of an assessment of risk and opportunity.
Sérgio Moro: The greater the opportunity and the lower the risk, the more crimes we will have.
So it is indeed the role of the State, of the Government, to promote preventive mechanisms to reduce opportunity and, on the other hand, to promote repressive mechanisms so that illicit acts are identified and, when identified, severely punished.
Sérgio Moro: But if it was almost impossible to approve any measure in this area in this Congress, unfortunately, under the influence of Lula's government base, we have now seen this change in the second half of the year.
Sérgio Moro: Last year, we only managed to pass the law that ended temporary prison leaves, the so-called 'saidinhas' — Lula vetoed it and then that veto was overturned — but this year we saw the Government itself become concerned and finally take some initiative, submitting the Public Security PEC.