Why does PM always get roasted chicken at the bakery? – 08/01/2023 – Gross Kitchen

Every Saturday and Sunday, the corner next to our house is full of people with a slip of paper in their hands, waiting their turn to get food. There is a butcher shop that, on weekends, sells barbecue, farofa, vinaigrette and the like.

Along with the people, come their cars. There are pickup trucks, SUVs, luxury sedans and the Military Police vehicle. It doesn’t fail: the PMs always show up.

They stay for several minutes, sometimes a couple of hours, the car parked and open, watching the situation with a constipated face. Meanwhile, other vehicles block the sidewalk and park at the cross street bus stop.

I once questioned a policeman and told him that those cars were in a prohibited place. He didn’t say anything, but his hateful look conveyed a clear message: “How I wanted to spank you and have you arrested for contempt.”

But he couldn’t. Not in that situation. I’m white and, despite being shabby, it was clear that I lived in the region. He needed a bigger defiance to stick me in the paddy wagon. If I insisted on charging them to do their job, I might give him reason. I didn’t insist. I’m not that dumb.

Anyway, the guards leave with bags full of meat. It’s like this almost every week.

Who has never witnessed a similar scene? The police car pulls up in front of a bakery. The meganhas exchange a few words with someone at the counter, grab a roast chicken and leave.

I do not believe it is explicit extortion.

Merchants want special protection and so they treat the police. The latter, knowing this, go around the establishments and hang around, as if they didn’t want anything, sometimes having a cup of coffee.

This is how public security works in wealthy neighborhoods in Brazilian cities. Commerce offers courtesies to the police, who reinforce their presence in these areas and tolerate traffic and other infractions. In these times, no young white man goes to jail for smoking marijuana in Perdizes or Pinheiros.

The law appears to be different in favelas and peripheries.

As seen in the massacres of Guarujá and Bahia, the police continue with the policy of arriving shooting. Approaches are made with punches and kicks.

The upper and upper-middle classes are silent. Many applaud. That’s why they feed the possums roast chicken.

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