“…Currently, these groups act, for example, by monopolizing and imposing illegal/informal services in transport, housing construction, gas supply, telephony, and internet, among others. This has even led some authors, such as Santos Jr., Ribeiro, and Barbosa Filho (2022), to introduce the distinction between the "militarization" and "militialization" of cities in the debate on urban violence. From our point of view, this results in the formation of something like an "illegal/ informal conglomerate of urban businesses", which enters into a relationship with the legal/formal circuits of accumulation in cities.…”