Entre a polícia-repressão e a polícia biopolítica: um estudo de caso das Unidades Paraná Seguro em Curitiba (2012-2015)

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the discourses and practices that involved the implementation of the Paraná Security Units and the related police action in the city of Curitiba, during the years of 2012 to 2015. For achieve this purpose a qualitative methodology was used through of a case study of UPS in Curitiba, based on documental and bibliographic research. Interdisciplinary theoretical fields were used with an object in common: the police. At first, we resorted to the historical analysis of the police, both in its European and Brazilian development. At second, we used the policing studies like a primary source to understand the police, as well as their transformations throughout the time. Next, the work turned to the empirical analysis of the Paraná Security Units to establish their contours: in addition to analyzing the discourses and practices, it was also sought to examine the socioeconomic context of Curitiba and, more specifically, the neighborhoods selected for the implementation of the Units. Starting from the data collected and the police's careful understanding of the historical-sociological perspective, one can perceive a lack of correspondence between what the Units were, based on the work performed, and the way police are understood in these two fields of study. Thus, both the historical matrix and policing studies understand the police on their only repressive side – the police as an instrument of the monopoly of the state force that has been brutalized by the historical characteristics of Brazil. To carry out an analysis that could comprehend it in the most integral way possible, one resorted to the philosophy of Michel Foucault, formulating the hypothesis that the Paraná Security Units would be, besides forms of action of the repressivepolice, also an instrument by which police become a bioeconomic agent of the city. The program was divided between UPS-Security, responsible for the repressive facet and UPS-Citizenship, to allow the inclusion of the community and its territory in the veins of cognitive capitalism with the proposal to resolve problems related to social vulnerability and to carry citizenship to communities. In the last instance, in addition to the biopolitical action of the police, the program tried to develop a specific form of citizenship, which we named governmentalized citizenship, to mean the inclusion of the life in new forms of control from the economic element, even if presented as a way of developing the political, social and democratic dimension of citizenship.