Reflection Erika Hirayama
-Summary-
The article was about a private “police” in Brazil. It has started its activity since December 1st last year and it is been paid. Agents have detained about 600 people for possession of drugs and some for theft so it can be said that it achieves a certain result. However, the target of private police are dark-skinned and homeless and they have removed some homeless so this move is controversial.
-Opinion-
It is sometimes necessary for citizens to protect themselves because police are not perfect so I agree to this movement in this point of view. However, since it is a private police and don’t have such rights like the public police have, it has to learn their place. In this activity, this “police” judge people by how they look like. People have rights to live in wherever they wish to live and this can be said even for homeless and dark-skinned. I thought this is kind of a discrimination and this may be one of the reasons why the government regards this activity.
※I had a trouble with my pods press so I asked Reina to submit for me.