We are the fifth most violent state in the country. Last year, 89 people died by the Military Police, 94% of them were young black people from the outskirts. We, at UP, defend the demilitarization of the police and investment in a humanized community police, in addition to investing in education, culture, leisure, and young people from the outskirts. Violence is about education, investing in youth and not killing our people.
To combat these criminal organizations, we have to end their financing, including their relationships with politicians and the financial system. And that. This war on drugs does not solve the problem because they are killing mainly young black people from the outskirts. Our policy is to legalize drugs to put an end to this, with this resource, to treat the health problem, not the police problem and, with that, also demilitarize the Military Police so that the Military Police is civil, unique, democratic and its commanders are elected by the population. Then, yes, we fight violence.
It is not with bang and bang that we resolve the issue of public security in Pernambuco. It is not by subjecting our police officers to kill or die that we will make people feel safer. It takes intelligence, it takes investment in research. It is necessary to aim at the 3 'Cs' to combat organized crime. It is necessary to combat the leaders of organized crime. I'm not interested in arresting a bunch of young people who are subjected to the logic of crime. For me, it is much more interesting to offer them cultural and social alternatives so that crime is uninteresting. I want the intelligence to find out who the ringleaders are and hold them accountable. It is necessary to attack the coffers of organized crime. Every criminal organization also has its tentacles in the legal market, and we need to find out what this market is in order to stop it from functioning. And, finally, combat corruption, which is not just in the state, but is also present in various state bodies, including our coercive power, which can no longer be subjected to this logic.
We will protect communities and fight factions. Pernambuco cannot become a state of factions, where people have no security. I will create the 'Pact against Factions'. To achieve this, we will bring together the powers of the state of Pernambuco and, personally, as governor, I will take care of this public policy to guarantee security. No cocaine, no weapons are produced in the state of Pernambuco, they come through the borders. We are going to create the De Olho na Estrada program to monitor currency, monitor vehicles and ensure safety so that we can have a safer state. Furthermore, we are going to create a large center to combat organized crime so that we can go upstairs, track the money and go after the factions and guarantee the presence of the state in the territories. A peace police that can take care of the territories and fight factions proudly and with force.
Look, I was a Federal Police delegate and I know very well that combating organized crime is not done with improvisation or speech, it is done with investment, integration, intelligence, looking for who the leaders are, who finances it, and we have done this in Pernambuco. There is already, through Together for Security, more than R$2 billion in investment. We held the biggest public competition in our history. The little oranges are on the streets, but there are also Civil Police, Criminal Police, Scientific Police, construction not only of battalions, but also of prisons to isolate crime and allow people to live in peace. But prevention has another side: fighting crime, which means ensuring a prevention policy. We were the first state in Brazil to create the Secretariat of Peripheries, which is present in the territory, guaranteeing more investments and quality of life for those who live in these regions, because my role as governor is to guarantee the effective fight against organized crime, but also to allow the safeguarding of the lives of the good population of our state, which is the vast majority of our population.
Our public security will work to put the victim at the center, and no longer the criminal. The sense of justice needs to transcend any type of narrative and, for this, we need to remember that it is the black and peripheral population that suffers most at the hands of the factions. Our proposal is to recover every inch of the territory that today belongs to these factions and force these factionalized drug dealers to have only two choices: either they will be arrested or they will be shot down. They will choose. And then the state will come in to provide education, health and infrastructure, clear these regions of slums and turn them into neighborhoods and no one will need to be afraid of living in a community anymore.
