Brazil: Discrepancy in the crime rates after media censorship

Following yesterday's news that the Secretary of Social Defense (SDS) in Pernambuco, Brazil, has decided to stop providing information on violence and crime rates to the press, PE Body Count [pt] has noticed some discrepancy among the blog's and the official figures for the weekend: the bloggers have counted 48 deaths, the SDS only 26. The blog has published the names of every fatal victim of crime according to its count.

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