Uma avaliação sobre a Política Pública de Segurança “PROTEGER”:

impactos e resultados na redução de “CVLI” nas comunidades “Gereba”, “Babilônia” e “Barroso 2”

Abstract

This article aims to summarize the work developed in the master's thesis in planning and public policies, in which a public security program based on the philosophy of community police, in full development in Ceará, is evaluated. In this case, the territorial protection and risk management program (PROTEGER), which is a new and expanding policy, which, at times, is
confused or even conflicts with another security policy, the so-called Pact for a Ceará Pacific. Throughout the research, it could be observed that some theoretical guidelines of the PROTEGER public security program are based on the idea of control, of reducing criminal opportunities, as well as aim at preventive partnerships and punitive segregation to reduce violence rates, as stated by Garland (2008) and Beato (2012). Studying PROTEGER allowed us, therefore, to scrutinize how such public security programs are born in the state of Ceará, and how they influence (behind the scenes) the power relations over the symbolic and political capital of the success or failure of these public policies. Furthermore, we were able to assess the extent to which the PROTEGER program, of the Secretariat of Public Security and Social Defense in Ceará, was effective in reducing intentional lethal violent crimes (CVLI), particularly in three communities on the outskirts of Fortaleza.