The Use of Hip Hop Culture as a Strategy for Approaching the Military Police with Youth in Public Schools in the State of Ceará

Abstract

This present paper aims at evaluating if the actions utilized by the Department of Public Safety and Social Defense (SSPDS) were effective through the Cultural Ronda Project (Projeto Ronda Cultural), which used the hip hop culture as an approximation strategy between the Military Police and the youth. Aiming to support this study, a research was realized on different themes such as public security, police, youth and hip hop culture based on literature analyses that have been published in formats of books, magazines, movies, several publications and others, as well as, field research at the schools where the project was done. This study has also analyzed the data collected from the questionnaires applied by the military polices for the students who attended the courses of the Cultural Ronda Project in the second semester of 2010, which the goal was to know if the young people were comfortable with the presence of the polices from this type of project and if this project provided a possibility of approximation between the youth and the police. The research which supported this present study was realized from June to December of 2010 and the locations of the research included 6 (six) public schools of the State of Ceará, where the courses of the Cultural Ronda Project were realized in the second semester of 2010. The instrumental for data collection used was the questionnaire, which was applied for the young people who participated in the courses, in the beginning and in the end of those, besides the questionnaires about specific themes applied in rounds of conversations. The goal of the application of the questionnaires was to verify if the goals of the project had been completed successfully.