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A cracolândia foi espalhada?
91 statements · 1 politicians · December 16, 2025 · 7 min
Statements by Tarcisio. 91 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Drug Policy, Public Health / Public Safety, Family assistance, Criminal Justice.
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Now, one thing I need to take some time to explain.
- Ambiguous
About: integrate public policies to address open scenes of drug use
Is it possible to put an end to Cracolândia?
Can it be done?
When you look at the literature, you see that there is... I think a lot of what I'm going to say here people don't know or aren't familiar with, and it's good to explain the logic behind what was done there.
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About: integrate public policies to address open scenes of drug use
In the literature, we see that all the cities that faced open-use scenes were successful when they combined public policies.
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About: integrate public policies to address open scenes of drug use
Public security policy, public housing policy, public health policy, a significant investment, and public social assistance policy.
Very well.
We began to try to understand this.
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About: create safe detoxification spaces
We created, in the city center, a care hub for crack and other drugs to refer people to treatment.
So many people say, 'you scattered everyone.'
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About: create an integrated registry to map and assist homeless people and drug dependents
Anyone who says that has to be careful for the following reason: over the time we worked with people, we registered everyone, because we told the team you can't solve this problem if you don't know each person's history, if you don't call them by name.
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About: create an integrated registry to map and assist homeless people and drug dependents
So we built the database and sought information about the people who were there.
What do these people do?
Where do they work?
What have they done?
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About: create an integrated registry to map and assist homeless people and drug dependents
Let's cross-check with the Caged database to see what positions they've occupied, what jobs they've had.
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About: create an integrated registry to map and assist homeless people and drug dependents
Let's cross-check with a criminal database to see if they have police records, if they've been through the police.
And that was our first surprise.
- Neutral
About: document profiles of Cracolândia visitors
Sixty percent of Cracolândia's frequenters — 60% were people released from the prison system.
So we would stop to think, why does this happen?
We investigated this and discovered the following: when a person sometimes leaves the prison system, they leave without any kind of support structure.
And there's more.
They had to do the prova de vida later in the sentence progression regime, and the only place they were doing this proof of life was at the Barra Funda courthouse.
So sometimes they were far away and they went to the city center.
When they went to downtown, they never came back.
They were already co-opted by crime there.
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About: decentralize proof-of-life to facilitate reintegration of former prisoners
So decentralizing the proof-of-life process was necessary.
With the Hub, we began to assess people, see who sought treatment, and we needed to expand capacity.
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About: expand the public healthcare network
People don't know, but we opened 40 therapeutic homes to provide reach and operational capacity.
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About: expand the public healthcare network
And we were able to send to treatment not only the people who frequented Cracolândia, but to help fathers and mothers who were desperate about their children in the world of drugs, in chemical dependence, in that darkness, and we were able to refer those people to treatment.
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About: attack financial structures and logistical networks of organized crime
We tried to understand the business behind Cracolândia, because, let's stop to think, if this thing has been operating for so many years and no one can solve it, it's because there must be something very powerful behind it.
And what was that powerful business behind it?
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About: attack financial structures and logistical networks of organized crime
There was a real estate issue.
Crime managed the flow to suit real estate interests.
It moved the flow to depress property prices.
When property prices fell, they bought up all the businesses that were there.
Those businesses were used for money laundering.
So you had the guesthouse, the hotel, the restaurant, the scrapyard, the recycling operation.
Sometimes in the name of a Bolsa Família beneficiary, but moving 200 to 300 million reais per year.
Moving a pyramid scheme that ultimately reached two or three companies registered in the names of people from the PCC faction.
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