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Brazilian website that helps prevent car thefts Residents of the city of Belém, state of Pará, adopted alternatives to avoid the assaults, and the Internet has been a tool in the prevention of crimes. One is the site "Where was robbed", built collaboratively to netizens mark on an interactive map the points where they were victims of thefts, robberies and car break-ins. The population believes that initiatives such as "Onde Fui Roubado" (Where was robbed) can be very effective to prevent assaults. Some sites like "B.O Coletivo" (Collective police report) also allow the analog record of events: accessing the page, the user can print a poster to indicate where he was robbed. Another application used by smartphone owners is "Waze", which uses the phone's GPS to display routes in the city, allowing the surfer mark points of interest as hazardous locations and stretches where there is visible policing.

Police attack young man with a skateboard It wasn't enough all the aggressiveness with which the Brazilian police treat the population in the last years with rubber bullets and tear gas, police in the state of São Paulo started beating people with other objects such as rocks and even a skateboard. In January, during a manifestation against the increase in bus fares, the state police surrounded a group of protesters who were unarmed and protesting peacefully. After beating in the people with sticks and rubber bullets, cowardly attacked a young man that was isolated from the group, applying blows to the boy's head with a skateboard. The governor was approached by newspapers and magazines but gave no explanation of the fact.

Bus burned in slum Over the last five years a form of protest has become very common in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro: burning bus. It wasn't enough the poor quality of public transportation offered to the population in these two cities, the people began to set fire to these vehicles in protest against any fact: traffic accidents, prision of local traffickers, tax increases, lack of water and lack of electricity. Once, a group of residents set fire to two buses due to the defeat of a local team in a soccer league. This type of crime was common in the poorest neighborhoods and now is spreading, often causing the closure of interstate highways.

Stray bullet victim is buried in Rio de Janeiro A very common fact in Brazil in the last 10 years is the high number of deaths by stray bullet. Occurring generally in locations near slums and drug points located in large urban centers, these deaths usually affect innocent people passing by at the time of an exchange of fire among cops and robbers or drug dealers. But in recent years, this type of crime has been occurring in middle class neighborhoods and affecting people of higher social classes. It's common nowadays cases of people who were shot in college door, in the shopping center or on the subway exit. What makes matters worse is that Brazilian authorities cannot identify the culprits, who always are kept unpunished.