The paper draws upon data from a year long evaluation study of a community policing program in Copacabana and Leme, neighborhoods on the south side of Rio de Janeiro. Besides monitoring statistics from the Military and Civil police forces, the program included a wide variety of qualitative data. The paper describes four distinct visions of conflict, disturbance and crime which emerge from analysis of these multiple sources of data.
community-policing; conflicts; civil police; military police; disturbance; public security