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I have seen grenade launchers used in shootouts between the police and the drugdealers in Brazil. I have never seen drugdealers in the U.S fire grenade launchers at the police. Why do you think I compare these shootouts in Brazil with Afghanistan, it is because they literally do resemble a warzone or the final scene of Scarface where Tony Montana used a grenade launcher on the Bolivian drugdealers.
Hi Tiger Blood,
How many times have you visited Brazil??
If you've been here, how many times have you been robbed or shot??
How many times have you seen a "shooting" or a grenade launchers in the streets??
I think you know nothing about Brazil.
You know Brazil just on TV. (CNN, Fox News, CBS, etc..)
Just like most Americans in the US, most Brazilians in Brazil never experience violent crime in their whole lives. There are dangerous parts of town in most countries, and usually people are so reasonable as to avoid them.
Not going to Brazil because of violence is like stopping to go by plane because a plane crash in the news
I must support my country now. I've seen that footage file, but, it doesn't happen all the time(at least not using greandes). About shootings, I've never seen one before, and I do live near slums, just one time near 2008 christmas, I heard a murder(4 shoots on a guy involved with drugs) one street down. But that's just because I avoid staying awake on streets at dead of night. That's the secret to live here, to act like a "George Bush", avoiding unknown places, unknown times, unknown ones, then if you're lucky, you won't get shot.
On average why are drugdealers in Brazil less afraid of the police, compared to drugdealers in the U.S. Most drugdealers in the U.S try to avoid at all costs starting a fullout shooting war with the police. While in Brazil most drugdealers don't fear the police, so they welcome a shooting war with the police. In Brazil the police probably fear the drugdealers more than the drugdealers fear the police, lol.
On average why are drugdealers in Brazil less afraid of the police, compared to drugdealers in the U.S. Most drugdealers in the U.S try to avoid at all costs starting a fullout shooting war with the police. While in Brazil most drugdealers don't fear the police, so they welcome a shooting war with the police. In Brazil the police probably fear the drugdealers more than the drugdealers fear the police, lol.
There's a lot more undescribed here. Sometimes, cops are corrupts and work for both sides, sumtimes police is unarmed and unprepared to act without provoking collateral damage, sometimes slums are real unbreakable strongholds. But to me the root of those questions are "human rights". Always when local police is under fire, dealing with hostage keepers, trying to break into a slum, or even on a simple blitz, atones it. It seems to me absurd when you can hit back only after taking a shot. Because our police only pull the trigger if they were fighted before. To me people who threaten others they lost their right to keep living and US police seems to think so. And as it turns out, thinking like this makes murder rate decrease.
On average why are drugdealers in Brazil less afraid of the police, compared to drugdealers in the U.S. Most drugdealers in the U.S try to avoid at all costs starting a fullout shooting war with the police. While in Brazil most drugdealers don't fear the police, so they welcome a shooting war with the police. In Brazil the police probably fear the drugdealers more than the drugdealers fear the police, lol.
Seems like the U.S. police also give the drugdealers in the U.S. a wide berth as well. So many of them. Having lived in plenty of shady U.S. neighborhoods, absolutely everyone knows which houses are the crack houses on your street. The police must know as well, but for whatever reason, they just leave them alone.
Same with drug-infected areas, where as a regular person, you know drugs are rampant there. Yet, they just become well-known rampant drug areas, and the american authorities just let it be.
I'm more concerned with traffic violations, which is where the U.S. police force seems to spend all of their time, extracting money from good-paying civilians trying to get back and from work.
I really wish they spent more time cracking down on drug dealers, but I guess there isn't much profit in that
Brazil's not that expensive. If you choose a little less comfortable places to stay inn.
is it possible to rent a room in sao paulo for r$50/day?
i remember checking nightlife prices and its crazy expensive.
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