Os policiais militares na política sergipana: uma análise sociológica sobre a segurança pública e o poder político

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the election of military police officers in Sergipe to political-electoral positions, from 2010 to 2024, with a special focus on the period from 2018 to 2024. This study emphasizes the social conditions of entry into the political race, understood as the possibilities of entering the electoral competition by converting professional resources into electoral resources. The central question guiding this research is to understand: how do military police officers use their professional resources to be elected to political offices in Sergipe? The hypothesis proposed is that police-politicians in Sergipe utilize professional resources, converted into political resources, to build their candidacies through the mediatization of their actions. The conclusion suggests that, in Sergipe’s case, there is a tendency for police-politicians to have politically established themselves through one or more of these three preconditions: a) Participation in advocacy movements through class associations; b) Engagement in philanthropic or assistance associations; c) Mediatization of crime-fighting actions, notably against drug trafficking and armed robbery.