BOPE: Representation Flashcards
BOPE stands for?
Battalion for Special Police Operations
They were created to deal with kidnappings, but their job now is to take on the most dangerous _____ ________ in the country, a battle fought with high-calibre weapons in the city’s favelas or shanty towns.
Drug gangs
Their role has made the force extremely controversial, with accusations that they have killed _________ people whose only crime was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Innocent
The film includes scenes in which captives are __________ by police officers to obtain information, and one in which an unarmed suspect is killed. At the same time, a drug gang burns a screaming captive to death, his body wrapped in tyres as he is set alight, apparently to destroy all human remains.
Tortured
The movie also points an accusing finger at the hypocrisy of _____ young people who complain about violence in Brazilian society, but who use the drugs that finance the gangs which dominate many favelas.
Rich
In a survey in Veja news magazine, 79% of respondents said they believed the film showed the police as they really are, and ___% thought the drug dealers in the movie were treated the way they deserved.
72
___% said torture was not an acceptable way to get a confession from a drug trafficker.
51
Some critics have accused the film of glamorising ________ and making a hero of a police officer who endorses torture and acts outside the law, an interpretation rejected by the film’s director.
Violence
On the streets of Providencia, a favela whose walls bear the bullet marks of many recent gun battles, there is little sympathy for the _______.
Police
One of Bope’s senior commanders insisted he did not accept the film’s portrayal of police using torture.
“The film is a fiction and the author may exaggerate things. The limit of activity of police, in particular Bope, is the law. The law doesn’t allow us to do that. Torture is not permissible, torture is a ______”
Crime
