Abstract: On November 22-26, 2004, Afro Reggae and CESeC held the fourth and final stage of the project “Youth and the Police”. The project was a partnership with the Minas Gerais State Military Police, through the Secretariat for Social Defense, and aimed to establish a dialogue between police culture and youth culture, decreasing barriers between these two groups through music and art: percussion workshops, theater, graffiti, circus, dance, and shows. The experience consisted of a four-stage pilot project. The surprising results of the four weeks of activities confirm the success of an innovative, creative, and radical proposal for integration between the police and society, unprecedented in Brazil. In addition, the project proved that it is possible to valorize and highlight the human, playful, and artistic side of the police while decreasing prejudice towards young residents of slums and housing projects.

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