Nearly 90% of police killings in 2023 involved black individuals
A study published on Thursday (Nov. 7) by the Network of Security Observatories revealed that 4,025 individuals were killed by police in Brazil in 2023. Race and color data were available for 3,169 of these cases, with 2,782 victims identified as black—representing 87.8 percent of the total.The data from the fifth edition of the bulletin Pele Alvo: Mortes Que Revelam Um Padrão (Targeted Skin: Deaths that Reveal a Pattern) were obtained through Brazil's Access to Information Law (LAI) in nine states. In all of them, the data show a disturbingly high proportion of black people killed by state intervention: Amazonas (92.6%), Bahia (94.6%), Ceará (88.7%), Maranhão (80%), Pará (91.7%), Pernambuco (95.7%), Piauí (74.1%), Rio de Janeiro (86.9%), and São Paulo (66.3%).Social scientist and coor...