| invetedlotus123 said: Yesterday a friend of mine was murdered inside his house. The bandits entered inside his home putted him on his knees and shooted his head. For no reason since they already had all the materials goods they wanted. And it was a upper-middle class house with high walls, security cameras and broad daylight in a medium sized town. I mean, the situation here is completely out of control. A person can literally be killed inside their house for no reason. It`s disgusting how people here learn to live along violence like it is normal. Urban violence is extremely out of control, everyday I live my home not knowing if I am coming back, and now we can`t even feel safe inside our own homes, this place is literally a complete warzone and there`s nothing we can do about it but wall ourselves even more. |
Do you live in Espirito Santo state? The situation there is really atrocious right now with the policeman strike.
I know how you feel and we´re just getting tired of it. I used to live near a favela (slums/shanty town) and I can remember at least three of my childhood friends/neighbors who were killed during assaults or gang fights. I don´t live in that place anymore but last Sunday there was a riot in my neighborhood because some people were doing "funk parties" on the street until late hours with sound-equipped cars and making noise at a very high volume. There were some of them selling drugs and other selling alcohol. Police came in large numbers and the riot started. I saw that happening a lot of times in the latest years in different places and it seems that drug dealers won´t stop doing that. It´s an easy way to get a lot of young people together and sell drugs to them. They don´t care if people in the ´hood need to sleep at night.
And it makes me even angry to know that today, most of the criminals are very young males. As our law is overprotective to them, many drug dealers and thieves "hire" very young guys to sell their drugs and to take part in robberies since they can´t be put in jail. Those young kids get too delusional about the possibility of making good money on crime and they´re too immature to even care about their victims... they just prefer to kill them. And more and more kids are getting addicted to drugs and alcohol.
For our foreginers friends reading this..... of course this is not the norm in every place in Brazil. There are some safe neighborhoods and some great places to visit in our biggest cities but those are common occurances in poor, low-income districts all over our country.
