Police killings hit record high in Brazil's Rio

Brazil's Rio de Janeiro police killings have hit the highest record. It has gone up by 18 percent in the first three months of this year.

Rio de Janeiro: In the Brazil's Rio de Janeiro police killings have reached the highest record. In the first three months of this year it has gone up by 18 percent.

This is partly attributed to a zero tolerance for criminals campaign by the state leaders. And the rise in police killings came under the Governor of Rio Wilson Witzel, who is a political ally of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

However, the police killing did not begin with the current administration, it began in 1998. In the official records it is said that from 2013 there had been an increase in the number of victims in Brazilian police operations. It started to rise from 416 to 1,534 last year.

Police killings have intensified in the last couple of years.

Paulo Storani, a Brazilian security analyst said that when police take any action against a strong criminal there is likely to be a confrontation which leads to violence. Storani also said that authorities should work in the proper direction so that they could handle the cause of the violence rather than reacting to it.

According to the latest survey many crimes such as theft have reduced but the structural problems still remain unchanged.