The production of truth in the investigation of deaths resulting from police action: an analysis of the evidence present in police investigations from 2016 to 2018, in Feira de Santana, Bahia.
Keywords: Police inquiry. Police intervention. Production of the truth.
This research analyzes the production of the truth in police investigations that deter-
mined deaths resulting f rom police intervention in the municipality of Feira de Santa-
na, Bahia. The research was carried out considering that the legal practices contrib-
ute to the formation of truths that emerge from narratives about the facts and that do
not reproduce the realit y. P olice lethality is aimed, above all, at the poor and black
populations, who suffer a process of incrimination in orde r to justify the violent action
of State agents. The analysis covered the description of the content of the narratives
of military poli ce o fficers under a qualitative approach, through verification of practic-
es and forms that were repeated in the texts, ma king it possible to show how police
discourse was constructed and presented to confer legality to police action. As a
conclusion, it wa s no ticed that the investigations have been serving as a means of
legitimizing deaths practiced by police, following a pr e established script that mostly
gu arantees the recognition of the narratives offered by the military as true.