Cotidiano e ação policial em Fortaleza: entre o dever e a prática nas primeiras décadas do século XX

Abstract

This article seeks to understand how the police duties were developed in the streets of Fortaleza during the first two decades of the 20 th century. With that, we attempt to retrieve which problems were faced by these historical subjects, in the face of the difficult task of policing the city. We regard the streets as a socially-constructed space, to which different meanings are attributed by its dwellers; it is the place were the Iaw enforcetement strategies were consolidated, escaping the surveillance of the superior officers and extrapolating what had bem instituted. It is in direct contact with the public that police officers have developd mechanisms for their action.