"Presente" ao lado do Leviatã: o estudo de um caso de policiamento no Leblon

Abstract

This thesis is about policing and security governance in contemporary complex societies; This is specifically a case study of one of the operations of the Programa Segurança Presente (Present Security Program), created in 2015 by the state government with the pretext of increasing, in partnership with society, policing in some neighborhoods and regions of the state of Rio de Janeiro. However, the ambivalent nature of its structure, which included off-duty police and civilian agents hired to carry out policing activities, as well as the turbidity of its scope, raised criticism and distrust of the program. In this sense, the present study proposed to analyze, through a “collated ethnography”, the nature and scope of the present operation, inaugurated at the end of 2018 in Leblon, an upper middle-class neighborhood, located in the South Zone of the capital of Rio de Janeiro. The results showed that, instead of a hybrid policing, as found in other late modern societies in which policing has been studied, as an arrangement of state and non-state agents for the social control of crime, the present operation is presented here. as a hybrid, but a hybrid by choice and political opportunity, largely due to the characteristics of a markedly “liminal” modernity, such as Brazil’s, as Roberto DaMatta observes.