DOMAIN OF CITIES, ASYMMETRIC WARFARE, PRIVATE SECURITY

Abstract

The domination of cities is a new modality of property crimes, considered an evolution of robberies known as new cangaço. It is distinguished by exerting control over cities for a period of hours, paralyzing their security forces, obstructing entrances and exits. As a way of combating this criminal modality, the state police have carried out simulations of attacks on cities considered possible targets for gangs, even training the civilian population. This characteristic can be considered an asymmetric conflict war, where the conflicts are in the urban space, involving its populations as a whole, not only military and criminal agents. However, both police and criminals point to the new technologies of private security companies and values ​​as the main response to the dominance of cities, demonstrating the gray areas between private and public in security. This is an ethnographic-inspired research, with emphasis on qualitative research methods. The field work was carried out for a year, between São Paulo and Paraná, locations where emblematic cases of city domination took place.