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Originally Posted by _Richard_
so the entire country of brazil is being held hostage by your police force?
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No, but there are criminals. When there is no police, they try to steal and rob everything. But it is only a small percentage that screws it for 99% of the good people. And that small group of criminals has weapons and don't hesitate to use them. So people are afraid to intervene cause there is always the change you get a lunatic who shoot you for nothing.
In Holland civilians would patrol on the street if something happened like this and there was no police. But that is too risky in Brazil.
But in the end, what are we talking about? I saw bigger demonstrations in Holland. And in the USA something happened after Rodney King and people also start robing after Hurricane Katrina.