Sociabilidade juvenil e regras de convivência na cidade

The article aims to discuss how public peace was framed as a public security problem in the municipality of Pelotas - RS and how this public policy framework is related to the occupation of the city and public roads, as well as youth sociability practices. The work addresses the Pelotas Peace Pact, the Coexistence Code (2017), Bill (PL) No. 7,199/2023, which established general standards for the preservation and guarantee of public peace and which, subsequently, made Decree No. 6,766 viable. /2023 to regulate the rules of coexistence in a specific region of the city center, at night and the Rolê Daora Campaign. The theoretical methodological perspective involved the Narrative Policy Framework. The documents involved the bills and the campaign website and news from the municipal executive branch. The time frame of the data involves the second half of 2023 (campaign launch period until December). The partial results point to the construction of a public policy narrative in which public peace is perceived as a problem to be resolved by the city hall through regulations and inspection of practices on public roads in certain territories of the city.