Intervenção do Programa Educacional de Resistência às Drogas e à Violência Juvenil na política de segurança pública na cidade de São Paulo

Abstract

Public Security is an obligation of the State, responsibility and duty of all. In order to fulfill this duty, we have several responsible bodies that work to guarantee this public policy. Despite this, the country and the state of São Paulo live with high rates of intentional lethal violent crimes - CVLI, mainly affecting the young population between 15 and 29 years of age. Given this situation, educational programs aimed at preventing youth violence are essential. In this study, we focused on the Educational Program for Resistance to Drugs and Violence, as it is part of preventive public safety in São Paulo, the locus of research. The general objective of this study was to explore and analyze the contribution of this Program to public security policy in São Paulo, perceiving it as an inducer in the fight against drugs and youth violence. CVLI's crimes, such as homicides, are directly linked to drug use and trafficking, the main problem in public safety. The study had as specific objectives, to identify the structure of the anti-drug policy; raise the data on care and deaths, as well as analyze the contribution of the program as an educational public policy for the prevention of drugs and violence among the young population, with a focus on the state of São Paulo. For this, an exploratory research activity was carried out, looking for bibliographies, official documents, reports that could interact with the topic in question. Due to this characterization, the approach is qualitative-quantitative, as we also rely on data, mainly from other published researches, in the public domain to highlight the object in question. Evidencing that the program contributes, even if indirectly, to the fight against violence and drug use, as it helps to educate young people about the use of drugs, the main factor involved with youth violence. The state of São Paulo was a pioneer in implementing PROERD in public schools, has been operating since the 1990s, the program is based on the public security secretariat, developing educational work from 1993 to 2019, serving a total of 9,948,877 students from schools in the state of São Paulo, it was noticed in the data collected that the years with the highest increase in the number of students served, municipalities and the number of instructors in the program were during the period from 2008 to 2016, in 2017 and 2018, the program suffered a sharp drop in the number of services, and during 2019 and 2020, we did not obtain data on this program. What reveals that in terms of public administration, the fluctuations of educational programs depend a lot on the government agenda. In any case, PROERD cannot be forgotten, and its indicators and form of action in the current period (of the pandemic) needs to be revised in order to reach more adolescents/young people, as it represents an effort in preventive safety, requiring greater investments in programs of this nature.