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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazilian police carried out a “significant proportion” of the 48,000 murders that swept Brazil last year, according to a U.N. report released Monday, casting doubt on the government’s ability to curtail drug violence and reign in vigilante militias.
The report, by the U.N. special envoy on extra-judicial killings Philip Alston, said police kill three people a day on average in Rio de Janeiro, making them responsible for one in five killings in the city.
Rio de Janeiro State Security Chief Jose Beltrame dismissed the findings, saying Alston spent less than two weeks in Brazil and did not fully understand what was happening.
