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That's interesting. I never really thought about it, but it makes sense, it's a damn effective way of further individualizing people based on pure fear.

There's a similar problem here in Brasil, but it's with the glorification of the police, of police brutality and glorification of violence in general. There's a bunch of famous "journalistic" programs in here, like Cidade Alerta (Alert City, or something like that in english), where these things are heavily glorified, like, daily.

There's this incredible video by Chavoso da USP (CW: SA of a minor being mentioned in the video), where he talks about this in detail, if you can, watch it, it's incredibly well done, the auto translation of the subtitles to english is fairly good.

And well, this isn't just a problem in television anymore. For years now, police action and brutality have been recorded, livestreamed and posted online, specially on youtube. Hell, I opened youtube on incognito mode just now, and this was one of the thumbnails in the front page:

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Yeah, it's a whole video of police going after people on motorcycles. Not only that, but my brother and his friends watch this stuff regurlarly.

Chavoso also talks about it in this other video, which is sort of a continuation of the other one I linked above.

I was gonna mention something else to show how media molds what is accepted or not on society, in turn also molding what is accepted to be shown in media, but it was so fucked up I got sick to my stomach just thinking about it. I think everything I said above provides a good picture of this same effect happening in a different way here in Brasil, shaping the collective imaginary of the masses through the media we consume and are exposed to.