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Raphael Gomide
Raphael Gomide has been a journalist for 9 years and has worked for four top daily newspapers in Brazil. Currently he serves as a Political, National Security and Human Rights reporter in the Rio de Janeiro bureau of Folha de S.Paulo, the best-selling newspaper in Brazil. In 2004, he won the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism with the series of articles "Slaves of the 21st Century", which was also awarded a Brazilian Human Rights prize. In 2006, he received three of the most important national awards for a story disclosing the secret negotiation of army officers with drug lords in order to recover 10 assault rifles robbed from a military unit. Raphael Gomide was a fellow of World Press Institute (WPI) in the US in 2005. |
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The Rio de Janeiro Police Department is the most lethal in Brazil. In 2007, Rio set a macabre record of 1330 civilians and 151 officers killed in alleged shootings. The Police Deptartment is frequently accused of corruption, crime and disrespect of human rights. In order to learn about its ideology and role of the training of officers, Raphael Gomide passed a public contest and underwent a month of police training. He chose to go undercover to try to understand the Police from within, without censorship. Gomide heard colleagues promising to kill rather than arrest criminals, and instructors teaching techniques to forge a crime scene in order to allege self defense. Through the testimony of officers, the story reveals that the Police tolerate and encourage lethal violence. |
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