"Polícia" is the fifth single by Titãs

Titãs

Titãs are a rock band from São Paulo, Brazil. Their best-known line up is the one in the album Cabeça Dinossauro : Nando Reis , Branco Mello , Marcelo Fromer , Arnaldo Antunes , Tony Bellotto , Paulo Miklos , Charles Gavin and Sérgio Britto...

, from the album Cabeça Dinossauro

Cabeça Dinossauro

- Covers :* Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura made a cover of "Polícia", present on the b-side of their Territory single, the digipak and Brazilian pressings of their 1993 album Chaos A.D. and the compilation Blood-Rooted)....

, released in 1986. The song, written just after Tony Bellotto

Tony Bellotto

Antonio Carlos Liberalli Bellotto is a Brazilian musician and writer, best known as the guitarist of Brazilian rock band Titãs. He has also written and released several books. Tony keeps a column called "Cenas Urbanas" at Brazilian magazine Veja.- Childhood :Bellotto decided to be a rock...

 and Arnaldo Antunes

Arnaldo Antunes

Arnaldo Antunes , is a writer and composer from Brazil. He began as a member of the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s. For most of the 1980s he was a member of the rock band Titãs. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first...

 were arrested for heroin traffic, criticises the Police

Police

The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

. The lines "Dizem pra você obedecer, dizem pra você responder, dizem pra você cooperar, dizem pra você respeitar" (They tell you to obey, they tell you to answer, they tell you to cooperate, they tell you to respect) criticize the occasional abuse of power

Political power

Political power is a type of power held by a group in a society which allows administration of some or all of public resources, including labour, and wealth. There are many ways to obtain possession of such power. At the nation-state level political legitimacy for political power is held by the...

 of police officers. According do Branco Mello

Branco Mello

Branco Mello is a Brazilian musician and actor, best known as the vocalist and bassist of Brazilian rock band Titãs. He has also played small but significant roles for the movies.- Childhood :...

, vocalist of the band, the album Cabeça Dinossauro had "much of that disappointment of being arrestet and to know you are not a criminal".

The song was covered by Brazilian band Sepultura

Sepultura

Sepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte, formed in 1984. The band was a major force in the death metal, thrash metal and ultimately groove metal realms during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their later experiments melding nu metal, hardcore punk and industrial.Sepultura...

. It was included on their albums Blood-Rooted (1997), Under a Pale Grey Sky

Under a Pale Grey Sky

Under a Pale Grey Sky is a live album by Sepultura, released September 24, 2002 through Roadrunner Records. The album was recorded in the Brixton Academy, London on December 16, 1996, the night that Max Cavalera left the band.-Album information:...

(2002) and also on the Brazilian edition of Chaos A.D..

"Polícia" was featured at The Elite Squad's soundtrack. A version of the song was used as the opening theme for a Rede Globo

Rede Globo

Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

 TV series called Força-Tarefa

Força-Tarefa

Força-Tarefa is a Brazilian television series directed by José Alvarenga Jr. and Mário Márcio Bandarra and written by Fernando BonassiMarçal Aquino...

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Track listing

#	Title	Length	Music
1	Polícia ("Police")	2:07	Toni Bellotto