Percepção e representação da violência na cidade de Manaus: os mapas mentais do policial militar

Abstract

The Military Police of Amazonas is present in all municipalities of the state, and would be no different in the city of Manaus. Public safety is an important part of society. In Manaus, the structure of that public safety has been undergoing constant change, we want to know what you think of the military police who are directly involved in this process, especially female officers who are the focus of research. A police officer is in the neighborhood of the reference public safety. Knowing the neighborhood is to realize space through the people who work and reside in place. We seek in this paper reflect the categories, place and perception, taking as starting point the view that the female police officer has over your work environment, and how it deals with violence and fear generated by insecurity. We adopt phenomenology as a methodological approach being used, open interviews to characterize the vision of the military police. From there, we made mental maps about the violence experienced by military police within the city, his involvement with the place. The study seeks to understand how the police officer perceives the city taking as reference the crime rates. The ratio of military police to the place requires new look at issues around violence.