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Table 9: “Dangerous” Places
Informant
General Descriptions
Specific Descriptions
Maria
Places without much action, people or
activity (“Lugares sem movimento)
“Lugares escuros” (dark places)
Av Atlântica b/t Francisco Sã &
Raina Elizabete after 11:30pm
Av Atlântica b/t Sá Farreira & Xavier
da Silva
Constante Ramos b/t Barata Ribeiro
and Pompeu Loureiro
João
Copacabana beach
Anywhere with tourists
Posto 2 through Posto 6
Carla
No place or street is safe; especially
dangerous are places without police
The tunnel that goes to Tomeleiros on
Popeu Loureiro
Av Atlântica after Figueredo
Magalhães
Praça dos parraiba (a.k.a. Praça
Edmundo Bittencourt)
Bernardo
West Zone—not Copacabana
Places with few police (“menos policias”)
Deserted places (“Lugares mais desertos”)
Rua Decio Vilares at Praça Braga
Rua Tonelero b/t Figueiredo de
Magalhes & Hilario de Gouveia
Source: “Crafting Copacabana: Images of Security and Strategies of Exclusion in Brazil’s
Tourism Capital,” interviews conducted by author in Copacabana, August 2004.
Table 10: “Safe” and “Secure” Places
Informant
General Descriptions
Detailed Descriptions
Maria
Plazas are never
dangerous
Sã Ferreira b/t Raúl Bulhões & Av Atlântica, where
tunnel under Pavão and Cantagalo favelas are, because
drug
traffickers
patrol
crime
to
avoid
police
intervention
João
Leme is not dangerous
Carla
“Security is impossible
(“Segurança é
impossivel”)
Anytime a municipal
guard is nearby
Bernardo
Copacabana is safe
(except for tourists)
More police make it
safer—especially around
Atlantic Avenue
Source: “Crafting Copacabana: Images of Security and Strategies of Exclusion in Brazil’s
Tourism Capital,” interviews conducted by author in Copacabana, August 2004.