With high -potent weapons of war, which also come from Germany, Switzerland and other European countries, police officers are "war against drugs and criminals" at state awareness, often take the law into their own hands and are also directly involved in criminal activities. In their missions in the favelas, they often endanger uninvolved passers -by, often also children and adolescents, or attack them directly.

In May 2020, the case of 14-year-old João Pedro Martins from São Gonçalo was public in the greater Rio area: he had played with his cousins ​​when police officers shot at his family's house 72 times and threw two grenades. In São Paulo in the same month in the Jardim Elba in the Sapopemba district, in which terre des hommes promotes projects for children and adolescents (SU), a civil police officer into the house of the 16-year-old Juan family and shot him in front of his mother and five younger siblings. The murderer stayed in the house an hour after the crime and was not held responsible by incoming military police officers, but was congratulated, as the mother who was under shock reported.

»The police force has increased significantly since Corona pandemic. Apparently, the perpetrators take advantage of the fact that the public's attention focuses on pandemic and see this as a profit to proceed even more brutal, «says Bruna Bleit, country coordinator of terre des hommes .