Mateus Simões: Urban violence involves theft.
Mateus Simões: which worries people—leaving home, having a cell phone stolen.
We fight that with police on the streets; our rates are much better than the rest of Brazil, but we will continue investing in that.
Mateus Simões: But regarding organized crime, I consider that we are an absolute success, because being neighbors of São Paulo, with all due respect to you in São Paulo and to Governor Tarcísio, but being neighbors to Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo and Bahia, where we have areas of criminal domination, that is, territories where the police do not... enter.
Mateus Simões: because it doesn't have authorization from the drug traffickers, it doesn't have authorization from organized crime.