Not only BOPE, BOPE is the military one (they are party of the army officially) There is also GOE (the one I cited earlier), ROTA, and several others. Also, b

Not only BOPE, BOPE is the military one (they are party of the army officially) There is also GOE (the one I cited earlier), ROTA, and several others. Also, before the world cup things were already quite violent, the movies you cited for example are based on a book that has stories about BOPE in 1980 After the world cup, then we had our police use this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qru7bQsz04M/TU8aavSCMAI/AAAAAAAAB78/zXmxjdACrlg/s1600/TANQUE+USADO+PELO+BOPE.JPG http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qru7bQsz04M/TU8aavSCMAI/AAAAAAAAB7... (this vehicle belongs to the Navy, it was borrowed to the police occupy a area near where stuff will be built for the olympics) Also São Paulo (where I am from) we have "ROTA" that criminals here nicknamed "wheels of death" because few of them survived after seeing one of their cars (this was the car that specifically got that nickname, the fact the same vehicle model was used by funeral companies also did not help: http://anjosguardioes.com/uploadfotos/Galeria/Policia-Militar/ROTA/ROTA_014.jpg http://anjosguardioes.com/uploadfotos/Galeria/Policia-Milita... )