Abstract:
This article examines the significance of Police Pacification Units (UPPs) in the context of the current urban geopolitics and the different aspects of the expression “re-conquest of territory” widely used by different agents of the State. It involves an explicit militarization of the urban question. If earlier the urban question was reduced to a “case for the police,” now we are moving towards turning it into a wholly institutionalized military question.

Keywords: Urban question. Militarization. Police Pacification Units.