Policy violence, structural racism and the limits of democratic state of law

Abstract

The present article discuss, trough bibliography research and based statistical data, the social condition of black people in Brazil and which social factors enable rule of law produce  high numbers of homicide of black people practiced by police officers. The objective is to evidence how the racism has been, historically, maintained  in social,  economic and legal  dimensions of Brazilian society. Thus, using the deductive methodology, it is argued that there is a selectivity of police forces with regard to black people, notably black men, as a result of the structuring social conditions that shaped Brazilian sociability over the centuries, which excel in criminalizing these subjects in favor  of others security, revealing the death policy. The police define who is target of use of force, and, thus, decides who lives and who dies, resulting in necropolitics.