“…New police officers were hired, with the alleged expectation that policing would be moved away from authoritarian practices and toward a model of "proximity policing" (Muniz & Melo, 2015;Menezes & Corrêa, 2018;Rodrigues & Siqueira, 2012). Although community policing was at least laterally reflective of the initial design of this experiment, the connections of pacification to real estate, media, military, and government investments prior to the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games (Gaffney, 2015;Grassiani & Muller, 2019;Silva, Facina, & Lopes, 2015), in addition to the historical anti-Black police violence that we described above, soon signaled the distance between this policing model and the citizen security that progressives in Latin America aspired for (Batista, 2011;Facina & Palombini, 2017). In practice, the new police officers worked in the same military institution as the former ones.…”