Apr 12, 2010 4:16 PM

In the favela, you have to start somewhere

"My policing is done on foot," said Captain Rosana Alves dos Santos, head of the area's 140-strong pacification unit, as she toured the slum with her Taurus pistol strapped firmly into its holster.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/12/rio-de-janeiro-police-occupy-slums

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