TERRITORIALITY AND PUBLIC SECURITY IN THE BRAZILIAN BORDER BAND WITH BOLIVIA:

O CASO DE RIO BRANCO CAPITAL DO ESTADO DO ACRE

Abstract

This research aims to analyze public planning in the field of security in the territory of the five regional public security in the city of Rio Branco, Acre and show if they mitigate the action of antagonistic criminal groups in dispute for the spaces of parallel power, in the Brazilian border strip in the state of Acre with Bolivia. The position of the state of Acre as the leader in the ranking of crime and violence in 2017 brings to the highest level, the decoding in the time frame of the first decades of the 21st century, to understand which factors lead to this scenario and which perspectives the society. white. The adopted methodology meant the analysis and compilation of the database provided by the Public Safety Forum Yearbooks and institutionally, related to the data presented by the Public Prosecution Service of the State of Acre, through the Crime Observatory. Conceptual contributions will emerge from research by Araújo (2018), Balestreri (2010) Haesbaert (2006; 2012), Escudero (2004). The trigger for factional warfare that has the center of gravity of power on the international drug trafficking route in the Amazon region with Bolivia, secondarily increases the record of homicides and robbery frequencies in Rio Branco, and elevates the Acreian capital between the most violent in the northern region and Brazil. Thus, geographic analysis, in addition to criminal statistics, mapping of geocrimes, broadens the scientific support for understanding the likelihood of recurrence of crimes and violence in the city of Rio Branco.