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  2. Crime in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Cracolândia ("land of crack") in central São Paulo. Drug trafficking makes up for an increasingly large portion of crime in Brazil. A total of 27% of all incarcerations in Brazil are the result of drug trafficking charges. Between 2007 and 2012, the number of drug related incarcerations has increased from 60,000 to 134,000—a 123% increase. [32]

  3. Cracolândia - Wikipedia

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    An area of Cracolândia, in downtown Sao Paulo. Cracolândia (literally Crackland in Portuguese) is a popular denomination for a region of the city of São Paulo, which is notorious for its high incidence of drug trafficking and drug use in public.

  4. List of Brazilian states by murder rate - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... São Paulo: 8.4: 3,044: 1.3 See also. List of Brazilian federative units by homicide rate. Crime in Brazil;

  5. Former 'crackland' addict turns Sao Paulo trash into livelihood

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    Fabiana Silva described her years in the drug market as "hell" -- but now she's clean, and making the best of her situation.

  6. List of criminal gangs in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Brasil 247 (22 January 2019). "Flávio Bolsonaro alegadamente empregou a mãe do chefe do Escritório do Crime" [Flávio Bolsonaro allegedly employed the mother of the head of the Crime Office gang]. Brasil 247. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019. "Brazil's biggest drug gang has gone global".

  7. Crime gang PCC is prime suspect for setting Brazil farmland ...

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    Sao Paulo accounts for about half of Brazil's sugarcane planting. The fires caused losses estimated at 350 million reais ($63.59 million), according to the Organization of Cane Producers ...

  8. List of Brazilian federative units by homicide rate - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Brazilian federative units by homicide rate, according to data from the Atlas da Violência (years 1996 to 2021, [1] [2] prepared by the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea) and the Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública (FBSP) [3] and the Mapa da Violência from 1998 (1980s to 1988 [4]) and 2000 (years 1989 to 1995, [5] prepared by United Nations Educational ...

  9. Primeiro Comando da Capital - Wikipedia

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    PCC, which was also formerly referred to as the "Party of Crime", and as "15.3.3" (following the order of the letters "P" and "C" in the former Brazilian alphabet, which did not contain the letter "K"), was founded with a clear agenda, to "fight the oppression inside the São Paulo penitentiary system" and to "avenge the death of 111 prisoners ...