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"According to Rio's Olympic bid, if the games were held there they would be concentrated in four staging areas around the city. This would allow a concentration of facilities and security personnel. Two of the areas, Barra and Copacabana, are already relatively low-crime areas that are heavily frequented by international tourists."
Only for Brazilian standards, because you have open drug warfare on most of the city.
"On top of that, Brazil is hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup. So much of the security infrastructure will already be in place by 2016, should Rio get the Olympics, and Brazilian police will have extremely recent experience in providing security for a massive event like that."
There is no security infrastructure. In fact, during these events the country uses the Army. They put some tanks on the street to frighten the Criminals.
"As for racial divisions ... its impossible to quantify something like that."
There are social, no racial divisions here.
