I am Brazilian but have lived overseas in the last 15 years, currently in Sweden. I can understand both your point of view (not being able to believe someone ca

I am Brazilian but have lived overseas in the last 15 years, currently in Sweden. I can understand both your point of view (not being able to believe someone can do things like this to a completely innocent person) and the point of view of Brazilians, who are used to seeing this every day and come to think this is normal. Here in Sweden, people don't seem to understand that some people are just capable of doing the most evil things. What they don't understand is that these people were born and raised in a place where society sees them as a disease to be exterminated. Even people who live in the "favelas" (extremely poor slums) would do anything to move to nicer areas and be seen as normal people. They are not all bad, but the ones who have a tendency to be violent become monsters. They don't see you as an innocent person. They see you as the enemy, the symbol of a society that wants them dead. They absolutely hate you and all of your kind. When you understand this, you can see how kidnapping someone for 5 days and terrorizing the person the whole time is not that surprising. If they found out by coincidence the guy was a police officer, they would have cut his head off and sent it in a package to the family. On the other side, it's common for some educated people to talk about these criminals as scum, that they deserve to be sent to the dirtiest, darkest prison they can find and let there to die. There's absolutely no belief in rehabilitation. In Sweden, prisons are quite similar to nice hostels. People see prisons as a place to re-educate offenders. In Brazil, they are places to dump the rubbish and hope they kill each other. If they manage to get out alive, they become a hell of a lot more dangerous as they make contacts with the organised crime (to which they always aspired to belong to). This is called "graduating" for them (because graduating in a real university is not even a remote possibility). They graduate in the university of crime. They actually feel respected after that... and go on to commit more advanced crimes (robbing a bank, managing a drug-dealing region...). That's how you get to the current situation.