Rio violence: Police killings reach record high in 2019
23 January 2020
The number of police killings in Rio de Janeiro reached a record high last year, officials say, amid controversial hardline measures to tackle violence.
Police killed 1,810 people, an average of five per day, the highest number since official records began in 1998.
Critics blame the rise on policies that include the use of heavily armed agents and helicopter-borne snipers to fight criminals in densely populated areas.
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Five a day is unfathomable and yes, lots of crooks but there are plenty of innocent people killed too.
