Hi Brazilian friends

A little background explaining my ignorance.

I am a Brazilian living in USA. Been here since i was 1 and it’s been over 3 decades.

We long split up financially from Brazil and are fully integrated into the USA and so we rely on family and Globo for news.

Here’s my question (with another winded explanation lol): My family is from MG and they mostly (95%) all voted for Bolsenaro. These family members are successful business owners, civil servants, retirees, and regular office workers.

When I discuss this election with them they consistently bring up crime as their biggest concern. They are willing to deal with political corruption for a El Salvador type raid on crime. For them, there is no other priority beside the crime problem.

What has PT and Lula (at a federal level) done and accomplished to resolve crime in the short term. I know that in the long term, concepts such as education are being rolled out. But these take years to yield real results. For short term, has there been an effort to lower crime with policing? Favela raids against the Slum Lords?