You have to be crazy to join BOPE as well...and their headquaters is like som raggedly pocked marked building as well.
you're talking regular police. that's the ones show up on globo like 5 or 10 gun down by dealers over retaliation. maybe one bope guy a mth and they go death squads and bounties 10000 reais to bring you back chopped up in a plastic bag when they lose one.
also for regular police they make so little, have to live in favelas so they have to hide their uniforms.
i'm not sure on BOPE pay.
yeah...mental drain must be incredible, out of this world. if it dont make u sick...it make u sick in the head.