A produção da verdade nas apurações das mortes decorrentes da ação policial: uma análise das provas presentes em inquéritos policiais de 2016 a 2018, em Feira de Santana

Abstract

This paper analyzes the production of the truth in police investigations that determined deaths resulting from police intervention in the municipality of Feira de Santana, Bahia. The research was carried out considering that the legal practices contribute to the formation of truths that emerge from narratives about the facts and that do not reproduce the reality. Police lethality is aimed, above all, at the poor and black populations, who suffer a process of incrimination in order to justify the violent action of State agents. The analysis covered the description of the content of the narratives of military police officers under a qualitative approach, through verification of practices and forms that were repeated in the texts, making it possible to show how police discourse was constructed and presented to confer legality to police action. As a conclusion, it was noticed that the investigations have been serving as a means of legitimizing deaths practiced by police, following a pre-established script that mostly guarantees the recognition of the narratives offered by the military as true.