Violence and politics in the management of security in são paulo:

notes on the Tarcísio government, the history of massacres, and the brazilian far-right

Abstract

The article presents and analyses the main measures adopted by Tarcísio de Freitas’ government in the area of public security in São Paulo in his first year and a half in office, and the discourses mobilized to support them. It is argued that his administration can be understood as a continuation of the military-militia articulation characteristic of so-called "Bolsonarism", which deepens and intensifies the logic of militarization and assumes in an increasingly explicit and open way the use of state violence for political gain. In this sense, the critique of the measures adopted by Tarcísio is part of a broader critique of the history of militarization, violence and extermination that marks security policies in São Paulo (and Brazil as a whole), and points out how the extreme right mobilizes and amplifies these patterns of action.