The constitution that was not: projects defeated for public safety in the New Republic

The purpose of this text is to recover the proposals for the organization of the repressive forces of the State defeated in the context of the debates around the 19878 constituent. This will be done through the search for documents published by different social actors of the period, as well as the mention in the debates registered in the annals of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), available in the collection of the Federal Senate. In retrieving this documentation, I intend to (1) demonstrate that the reproduction of the public security model inherited from the military dictatorship (1964-1985) was the result of the active work of politically organized social forces to ward off the renovating proposals formulated in different spaces of Brazilian society; (2) by demonstrating the sense of dispute involved in shaping the current system, denaturalizing its present form and highlighting the possibility / need for it to be debated, rethought and reformulated and; (3) recover, in the history of defeated projects, proposals that remain relevant to the Brazilian reality and that can shed light on alternatives to face the security crisis that has afflicted us for so many years.