Impunity
Police and prison violence is often covered up or ignored by authorities, as well as crimes committed by alleged social movements like the Landless Worker's Movement or criminal factions like Primeiro Comando da Capital. Brazilian politics are also rife with impunity, continued through dismissal of overzealous officials and pointed bureaucratic oversight.
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“It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.”
—Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100–44 B.C.)