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Nigeria should consider embracing a decentralised policing system as community mobilisation during COVID lockdown ensured law and order.
The country is still a very different political space. It’s a noisy democracy with a free media, lots of dissenting voices, and insulting the government doesn’t carry any overt sanction.
Increasing police patrols won’t solve South Africa’s high rates of violent crime. Underlying problems need to be addressed.
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Associate Professor, Political Sciences, and Deputy Dean Teaching and Learning (Humanities), University of Pretoria
