The long road back to community policing: Inside Nigeria’s state Police gamble

For six decades, Nigeria has policed itself the same way: one force, one command structure, one Inspector-General giving orders from Abuja to a village in Zamfara or a creek in Bayelsa. That arrangement is now, finally, coming undone  and the man overseeing its unwinding spent this week not in Abuja, but eleven blocks from Times … Continue reading The long road back to community policing: Inside Nigeria’s state Police gamble