Harrowing tale of a police stand-off

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Esmoreit said:

dsister44 said:
I'm not sure why Zexen would have info of police actions in the slums of Brazil. But he may know something of them in Argentinia

Damn, thought he was the one from Brazil... A well, Argentina probably has the same problems to some extent, as do the French Police officers in the banliue's but I don't know any board-members from French.

I am from Brazil.

And I can say we have it much worse here (more specifically - Rio de Janeiro). In here, the police cant go into the slums unless they plan ahead and send a massive force with a lot of firepower. The drug dealers rule the slums. They are the law around there. They wouldnt fight bare-handed or throw rocks. They would have military-grade weaponry (they took out a police chopper once :0)

However, recently (about a year ago) the government decided to have certain slums to be literally taken over by the police. They planned for  weeks, brought a lot of officers and firepower and drove the dealers away and kept a strong force in there to keep them away and keep the peace.

They have done this in a few places now and it seems to have worked (though some people protest such a heavy police force there since it means cops searching people and asking questions - people feel like they lost part of their freedom - i disagree since before they were much worse).