BOPE: One of the most efficient urban combat troops in the world.
The police is an institution that was created to be violent and corrupt, to protect the State and the elite.
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the policy of repression in the name of the State maintains 2 million people of the "favelas", all those people who have been excluded by the society, calmed and under the control.
A documentary about the conflicts generated by the drug traffic in Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro has got more than 700 favelas. Almost all of them crowded with drug dealers armed to their teeth. They're armed with AR-15, Pisto-UZI, H&K and so on.
Everywhere else in the word those weapons are used in wars. But in Rio, they're the weapons of crime.
Everywhere else in the word those weapons are used in wars. But in Rio, they're the weapons of crime.
Trailer for the Brazilian movie Elite Squad [Tropa de Elite] [2007].
