In November and December, Leme taught classes as part of the training program for agents of the Elite Division of the Municipal Guard, during the training course of the municipality’s new overt policing force. The activities took place at the Elite Division Training Academy, located at the headquarters of the Federal Highway Police (PRF), in Rio de Janeiro.

On Monday (12/01), the Public Security Secretariat of Paraná (SESP) held the Public Security Data and Artificial Intelligence Seminar to present the development of the Domestic Violence Revictimization Algorithm technology. The tool aims to create an AI-based algorithm capable of estimating the risk of revictimization among women with a history of aggression.

In June 2025, Joana Monteiro, director and co-founder of Leme, was appointed to serve on the Monitoring Council of ADPF 635, created by the National Council of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Last Thursday (16), Leme participated in the meeting “Network of Sustainable Cities and Municipalities for Democracy,” held at the Windsor Leme Hotel in Rio de Janeiro. The event was organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) and brought together representatives from local governments, academics, and international organizations such as UN-Habitat and the Regional Center for Green Growth and Climate Change to discuss the impacts of climate change and the role of cities in COP30.

Last Tuesday (14), Leme hosted economist and University College London professor Spencer Chainey. The researcher, who was visiting Brazil, was welcomed at the laboratory by Joana Monteiro, Leme’s director and co-founder.

In recent weeks, Leme carried out a series of visits to institutions and facilities in Fortaleza, Ceará, to learn firsthand about initiatives aimed at preventing violence and reintegrating young people.

Between August 13 and 15, Leme participated in the 19th Meeting of the Brazilian Public Security Forum (FBSP), held in Manaus, Amazonas. The event brought together specialists, managers, academics, and civil society representatives to discuss public security challenges in the Amazon, integrating the debate with the climate emergency and the need to protect both cities and the forest.

Leme and the University of Chicago carried out a series of visits to community facilities in Maré with the goal of closely learning about initiatives focused on violence prevention and the protection of young people in vulnerable contexts.

On August 19, Leme – Laboratory for Violence Reduction held the event “New Approaches to Controlling Armed Criminal Groups in Rio de Janeiro” to discuss strategies to combat violent organized crime in the state, drawing on both national and international experiences. The meeting took place at the Institute for Studies on Economic Policy/Casa das Garças, in partnership with the institution and the University of Chicago, and was funded by University of Chicago Global and J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean.

On August 18, Leme – Laboratory for Violence Reduction held the event “Violent Organized Crime: What Rio de Janeiro Can Learn from the Experiences of Medellín and San Salvador”, hosted at Instituto 12, in Leblon, in partnership with the institution and sponsored by Gabriel.

Este projeto, iniciado em 2024 e realizado em parceria com a Secretaria de Segurança Pública do Paraná (SESP-PR) e o Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID), objetiva desenvolver um modelo preditivo e um algoritmo de predição para avaliar o risco de revitimização de mulheres em casos de violência doméstica ocorridos no Paraná. Essa ferramenta tem o potencial de classificar os casos conforme a probabilidade de ocorrerem novas vitimizações, fornecendo insumos para a focalização de políticas públicas destinadas a combater a revitimização e o feminicídio. O modelo e o algoritmo propostos visam contribuir para uma abordagem mais célere na identificação das vítimas de alto risco e no manejo dos casos de violência doméstica, que superam numericamente a capacidade atual de atendimento dos órgãos de proteção do estado.

Last week, Leme – Laboratory for Violence Reduction was approved in the Talent Attraction and Retention program of the Conhecimento Brasil program, an initiative of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), with funding from the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FNDCT) and managed by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI). The public call aimed to repatriate Brazilian scientists working abroad or who completed their doctorates or postdoctoral studies outside Brazil since 2019.