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This paper analyzes the as a sphere of dialogue between Police and community and, consequently, a new organization of traditionally hierarchical structures through the insertion of the citizen into the management of public policies. The matter of popular participation in public policies emerged as a focus of analysis in Brazilian social sciences, especially after the resignation of city councils, seeking to approximate public policy managers and citizens. In the specific case of public security, the motivation for the engagement of citizens in public policies acquires a more incisive connotation due to the growth of violent crime levels in the country. The present article offers a case study of the Council of Public Security in Brumadinho, a city in the Metropolitan Area of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. This case presents relevant elements for the understading of the complex interaction between social and public actors as well as their implications for the construction of public policies. In this way, it is possible to simultaneously discuss the challenges of popular participation and the new arrangement of the public structures, traditionally responsible for managing public security policies.

This paper sought to present some reflections on the research developed by Nufep (Fluminense Center for Studies and Research) of the Federal Fluminense University (UFF) which resulted in the diagnosis of public security and the guidelines of the local plan of public security of Sao Goncalo. It is our interest to discuss the issue from four specific approaches: the federal government’s leading shares; the institutional processes for managing conflicts; the importance of personal relationships in municipal politic; and the representations on the local belonging and their significance for the development of public policies. Key words: Municipal security; Public policy; Institutional conflict administration; Conflicts of gender; Domestic violence

This article is meant to examine the policy of integration of military and civil police deployed in Minas Gerais between 2003 and 2006, in the first government Aecio Neves. In addition to specifying the guidelines and projects of integration policy, tried to address the phenomenon from the perspective of the concept of governance. It is argued that there was a uniqueness in the conduct of public policy, characterized by intensive involvement and conflict of police organizations both in the process of formulation and in implementation. If on the one hand, the prospect of governance beacons that the policy has given the process a high degree of slowness, on the other hand, gave him high levels of legitimacy, and thus of institutionalization. Key words: Police; Public Security; Integration of police

Resumo: O presente trabalho está dividido em três partes, procurando relacionar a análise das políticas penais implementadas a partir da chegada do Partido dos Trabalhadores ao governo federal em 2003 e o impacto dessas políticas, especialmente daquelas vinculadas a mudanças legislativas em matéria penal, sobre as taxas de encarceramento. Partindo da compreensão de que o período aberto, no Brasil e em outros países da América do Sul, com a ascensão ao poder de partidos vinculadas à tradição política de esquerda se caracteriza por uma tentativa de estabelecer um contraponto em relação ao período anterior, marcado por privatizações e pela redução do gasto público com políticas sociais, produzindo como resultado a redução da desigualdade social e a implementação de políticas distributivas ou compensatórias, nosso propósito foi o de identificar os principais aspectos que marcaram este período no âmbito da elaboração e implementação das chamadas políticas penais. Em um segundo momento, analisamos os dados sobre o encarceramento no Brasil neste período, que é marcado pelo crescimento ininterrupto do número de presos provisórios e definitivos, e procuramos apontar as principais causas dessa situação, em grande medida contraditória com as definições programáticas do governo federal. Por fim, procuramos apontar os principais impasses e obstáculos para uma reversão dessa tendência de crescimento do encarceramento, assim como para a implementação de um novo modelo de prevenção ao crime, levando em conta os limites do projeto político implementado nestes 12 anos para a área da segurança pública e os seus possíveis desdobramentos. Abstract: This paper is divided into three parts, attempting to correlate the analysis of penal policies implemented since the arrival of the Workers Party to the federal government in 2003 and the impact of these policies, especially those linked to legislative changes in criminal matters, on rates of incarceration. Based on the understanding that the period opened, in Brazil and other countries in South America, with the rise to power of parties linked to the left political tradition is characterized by an attempt to establish a counterpoint to the previous period, marked by privatization and reduction in public spending on social policy, producing results in the reduction of social inequality and implementing distributive or compensatory policies, our purpose is to identify the main aspects that marked this period in the drafting and implementation of the so called criminal policies. In a second step, we analyzed the data on incarceration in Brazil during this period, which is marked by the uninterrupted growth in the number of provisional and definitive prisoners, and we try to point out the main causes of this situation largely contradictory to the programmatic definitions of the federal government. Finally, we try to point out the main problems and obstacles to a reversal of this incarceration growth trend, as well as the implementation of a new model of crime prevention, taking into account the limits of the political project implemented in these 12 years to the area of public safety and its possible consequences.

Resumo: O presente artigo pretende apresentar, em linhas gerais, os fundamentos que embasam a atuação dos municípios no campo da segurança pública, assim como apontar algumas das contribuições do Observatório de Segurança Pública de Canoas na gestão do conhecimento da política municipal de segurança pública, qualificando a atuação tático-operacional das diversas agências que participam do Gabinete de Gestão Integrada local (GGI-M). A experiência deste observatório aparece como uma expressão do entrelaçamento da pesquisa científica/acadêmica com a pesquisa realizada na e para a própria gestão pública. Esse “tipo” de pesquisa desvela-se como essencial para as decisões dos gestores públicos municipais, especialmente no processo de consolidação das políticas públicas que se pretendem não somente de governo, mas também de estado. Abstract: This paper aims to present, in general, the rationale for performance of municipalities in the field of public safety, as well as pointing out some of the contributions of the Observatory of Public Security of Canoas in knowledge management of municipal politics, qualifying the tactical-operational activities of the various agencies participating in the local “Integrated Management Office” (GGI-M). The experience of the observatory appears as an expression of the interlacing of scientific/academic research with the local management of public security. This kind of research performed by observatory appears as essential to the decisions of municipal administrators, especially in the consolidation of public policies that are intended not only government but also to state policies.