Ana Clara is a PhD candidate and holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ), as well as a Bachelor’s degree in History. She is a researcher with the CASA and BONDE groups (IESP-UERJ) and the Urban Policy Axis of the Observatório de Favelas. With extensive experience as a History teacher in basic education, she is also part of the Observatório de Favelas team, a prominent research center in the Complexo da Maré. There, she applies her expertise in racial and urban debates to projects that influence public policies and directly impact the lives of local residents. Her research focuses on the history of Post-abolition period, Sociology of Violence, and Urban Sociology, with an emphasis on urbanization, ideology, violence, control, surveillance, and race. Her dissertation explores the transformations Rio de Janeiro underwent following the abolition of slavery, using the police institution as a lens to examine the broader impacts of the post-abolition period on the city. In this context, she conducts a detailed analysis of the police force and its internal transformations, with a particular focus on the creation of the Identification and Statistics Office. She interprets this office as a key hub for shaping ideas on urban management, demonstrating how its practices reinforced specific associations between crime and race, ultimately contributing to the racialization of the city.