Questões étnico-raciais e a formação do policial militar: um estudo na Academia de Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais.

Abstract

Aiming to analyze aspects around ethno-racial issues, this research focuses on the perception of military police officers in the process of training at the Military Police Academy of Minas Gerais (APM) about racism. The APM is the locus of our investigation because it is a professional educational institution focused on the training of military police officers from the state of Minas Gerais. The field research was conducted during the years 2019 and 2020, seeking to address the proposed theme through the perception and representation that military police officers have about the racial phenomenon. The theoretical framework is built from authors who research ethno-racial themes and the large area of Public Security, as well as authors who work the theory of social representations. The apparent, or explicit, antagonism between some authors aims to build a research that integrates different aspects in order to better discuss and present the proposed theme. The methodology that sustains the research is of the quanti-qualitative type, making use of documental, bibliographic, and statistical data produced after the application of structured questionnaires. To better capture the social reality under analysis, we built graphs and tables, with data provided by the Directorate of Human Resources of the Military Police of Minas Gerais (PMMG) about its active personnel until December 2019. The sample group was composed of military police officers attending the Officers' Training Course (CFO), Officers' Qualification Course (CHO), Sergeants' Training Course (CFS), and Special Sergeants' Course (CEFS), all from the APM. The incipiency of studies with the proposed approach reflects the need for greater reflection about closed institutions, as are the police forces, and it is in this area that we seek to respond to a gap in the studies of violence and ethnic-racial relations, taking into account the many narratives about the relationship between racial prejudice and violence against blacks in public security.