Lula’s latest disgrace exposes everything wrong with Brazil’s leftist regime: an open contempt for law enforcement and a shameful embrace of criminals.
In a jaw-dropping display of tone-deaf arrogance, President Lula announced that stolen cell phones should be returned not to police stations, but through the post office—because, in his words, ordinary citizens are “afraid” of what kind of police officer or delegate they might encounter. Let that sink in. The leader of the country is openly telling the Brazilian people that their own police are to be feared, while bending over backward to make life easier for thieves and those who traffic in stolen goods.
This isn’t pragmatism. This is betrayal.
Police officers—delegates, investigators, and street cops—risk their lives every single day battling the violent crime waves that leftist policies have helped unleash. Yet Lula treats them like the problem. He smears entire precincts as intimidating and unreliable, then offers a cozy postal workaround so fence buyers and opportunistic criminals don’t have to face any real accountability. Imagine the message this sends: Steal a phone, sell it cheaply on the black market, and if the government catches on, just drop it in the mail. No questions, no investigations, no consequences. The victims? Too bad. The rule of law? Optional.
This is classic Lula logic—soft on crime, hard on the institutions that protect society. For years his government has coddled criminals with lenient policies, early releases, and ideological appointments that prioritize politics over competence in public security roles. Now he’s institutionalizing distrust in the very forces tasked with fighting banditry. “People are afraid of the police,” he says. No, Mr. President—what honest citizens fear is a government that sides with the bandits over the men and women in uniform who actually keep order.
The outrage from police associations and delegates is entirely justified and long overdue. They see this for what it is: another humiliating slap in the face from a political class that romanticizes “social justice” while everyday Brazilians suffer robberies, carjackings, and murders. Recovering stolen property should strengthen justice, not dilute it through bureaucratic hand-wringing designed to avoid “scaring” the wrongdoers.
Brazil deserves leaders who back the thin blue line, not undermine it. Leaders who understand that you don’t fight theft by making it more convenient to launder stolen goods. This pathetic proposal isn’t about recovering phones—it’s about recovering votes from the criminal underclass at the expense of public safety and institutional respect. Flavio Bolsonaro has a solid plan to fix and value citizen’s safety.
Enough. Brazil needs strength, order, and unapologetic support for its police—not this disgraceful pandering to the very chaos destroying the nation. Lula’s comments aren’t a gaffe. They’re a confession of where his sympathies truly lie.