Os medos na política de segurança pública

Abstract

The article aims to resume the debate on fears, which cannot be denied and continue to limit the freedom of action of paralyzed individuals. It discusses the liberal doctrine of what must be done to prevent individual action from being restrained, especially in the liberalism of fear, the political doctrine of cruelty, the deliberate imposition of physical or moral pain by the stronger on the weak. It relativizes the view of the State as a perennial threat to the freedom of citizens, who must bend to repression, since there are organized groups or individuals outside the State, such as the Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) network, who intimidate or kill people in the name of their individual interests or ideological ends. The most common way out of such a situation is to ensure that none of these State officials can intimidate anyone except by use of well-understood and accepted legal procedures. The article then discusses how the war on drugs affects civil servants and creates reactions and psychic problems; those living in the most violent urban areas who, because of accumulated traumas, shut themselves from social coexistence and associative life; and city dwellers, who become more media- -oriented and susceptible to religious fundamentalist ideology.