Just what is Rio’s post-intervention reality?

Panelists chat before the March 26 public hearing on the Federal Intervention, at the Federal Public Defenders’ Rio office

Tough to say. But one thing is certain: there’s more information about where we went wrong, where we are and how to get ourselves to a better metropolis.

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Turning away from a longtime focus on drug gangs and trafficking, Rio is at last facing up to the reality of its milícias (paramilitary gangs) with an exclusive Intercept Brasil report, a collaborative pioneering effort with the Disque-Denúncia (anonymous call-in) service and the Volt Data Lab, followed by other reporting, arrests and even new attention within the Military Police itself (which overlaps with milicianos):

“In greater Rio, groups led by police, firemen, vigilantes, jail guards and members of the military, off duty or in active service, terrorize people more than…