In 2017, one police officer has been killed every two days in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The figure was obtained by tallying the number of officers killed on the job (21), the officers killed off ...

A Datafolha survey shows that the current wave of violence in Rio de Janeiro has made a major part of its population want to leave the city. Seventy-two percent of the city's residents say that, if ...

Every 54 hours, a police officer is killed in the state of Rio de Janeiro Relatives of police officers caught up in Brazil's soaring levels of violence have protested in Rio de Janeiro hours after the ...

Rio de Janeiro is in the middle of an unprecedented wave of violence, and nowhere in the city is feeling that more acutely than the favela of Jacarezinho. So that is exactly what Jacarezinho has ...