Fatal Violence In Brazil

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4. How can you actively seek the information you need to solve the problem? We need to inform more people of what is happening and actually get people aware that there is an epidemic. Like for example are high levels of fatal violence in Brazil, this is frequently distorted by national and international media as an unpretentious cops vs robbers dynamic. This conveys a lot misrepresentation that more often than not criminalizes poverty. Abundant more effort requirements to be done on understanding the official and unofficial social, political parties and economic platforms that withstand these high levels. We need to see through this media mirage there trying to put on us and see what we really need to see. We can do that by showing the people

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