A federal audit finds Brazilian states pay almost all the policing bill, while organised crime moves more than twice the country's entire security budget.
Public Security
Key Facts
—The audit. Brazil’s federal accounts court, the TCU, reported on the National Public Security Plan on 8 July.
—The federal share. Union transfers came to 1.19% of state security spending in 2023, 1.17% in 2024 and 1.31% in 2025.
—The asymmetry. Organised crime moves about R$348bn ($67.6bn) a year, some 2.4 times the R$142.81bn ($27.7bn) all three tiers of government spent on security in 2024.
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