Resumo:
Based on the guidelines formulated by the National Public Security Plan, designed in the
government of former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in the year 2000, the current
public policy of civil disarmament was implemented through Federal Law 10,826, dated
December 22 of 2003, with the declared purpose of promoting the control and reduction of
high levels of crime with the use of firearms and explosive devices, notably the high death
rate due to firearm firing in Brazil. The present work proposes to analyze the public policy of
national civil disarmament, after more than a decade of validity and its relation with the
crimes of homicides practiced with the use of firearms in the State of Bahia and specifically in
the city of Santo Amaro-BA, as well as demonstrate that the measure has made it vulnerable
to law-abiding citizens who spontaneously surrendered their defense weapons to the public
power, exposing them to potential disadvantage in the face of violent criminal statistics in the
region, as well as developing scientific research on the impact of public action in the
accomplishment of public security activities, especially in the municipality of Santo AmaroBA, a city located in the Bahian recôncavo, distant about 72 (seventy-two) kilometers from
the capital, presenting statistics of intentional lethal crimes practiced with fire in the
municipality, examining the local people's personal impressions about fen and the efficiency
of the public policy in force in the control of local violence, comparing the records of the
databases of the organs of the criminal justice system, the health and public security organs,
cataloging the various bibliographical works that explore the theme, in addition to carrying
out a scientific investigation of the effectiveness and legal validity of the measure in
controlling crime with the use of firearms and its social and political consequences for the
Santoamar community.
