ABSTRACT
The pacification police adopted more hardline tactics, it became clear that the program entailed a merely performative shift. Global security experts recognized pacification for the precarious fix that it was and sought their own solutions to Rio de Janeiro's insecurity. Mega-events provide a window of analysis into wider processes that are simply sped up because of the time frame for preparation and implementation. The chapter argues that the mega-events bifurcated security practices in an divided city, producing specific security regimes aimed at containing the city's poor while securing corporate bodies and spaces for the mega-events. Rio de Janeiro hosted both of World Cup and Olympics large-scale sporting events with the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016. The argument was that hospitality security wasn't a match for the population. Security which was rooted in inequality in the belief that some portions of the population deserved unchecked violence was routinized and normalized under the aegis of the mega-events.
