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18/12/2025

IF WE APPLY COMMUNITY POLICING IN NIGERIA
Community policing can be a game‑changer in Nigeria if it’s done right. By getting officers and locals to work together, you create eyes on the street, build trust, and nip crimes before they explode.

On the plus side, it helps bridge the gap between police and communities that have often been at odds. When people feel heard and see cops as partners rather than enforcers, they’re more likely to share info, report suspicious activity, and join neighborhood watch groups. That kind of grassroots vigilance can cut down on everything from petty theft to larger gang activity.

But it’s not a magic fix. Nigeria faces deep‑rooted issues—corruption, under‑funded forces, cultural divides, and sometimes a lack of basic infrastructure. Without proper training, accountability, and resources, community policing can end up as a buzzword or, worse, a cover for misconduct.

If you want to make it work, a few practical steps help:

1. *Training* – officers need skills in communication, conflict resolution, and human rights.
2. *Local ownership* – involve community leaders, religious groups, and youth in planning and decision‑making.
3. *Clear guidelines* – set out what powers police have, how complaints are handled, and how successes are measured.
4. *Sustainability* – fund community centers, lighting, and small‑scale projects that give neighborhoods a stake in safety.

In short, community policing is a solid idea for Nigeria’s crime‑fighting toolbox, but it has to be backed by real commitment, resources, and oversight. What do you think would be the biggest hurdle to getting it off the ground where you live?

18/12/2025

COMMUNITY POLICING
Community policing is a process in which a community organization or the sketch holders will collaborate with the police officers to have a discussion regarding the issue affecting the community or any early warning sign and provide solution. It can be partnership between both regarding the issue affecting the community for the purpose of maintaining peace and avoiding conflict.

PROCEDURES:for instance, the community experience burglars offending activities within their home, shops, restaurants, or any other places, and they need to be free from such unlawful activities, then, the police and the community will come together and discuss about the issue.

During the discussion the police are intend to ask such questions viz :

What types of the people are they targeting for ?
When did them arrive for the activities?
Who are the offenders?
Where are they coming from?
Which types of the weapon they're using with?
What are they looking for?
And how they targeting the public etc. By asking and getting well information respond from community,the police will use with their expertise experience to highlight the offenders and ensure they take necessary precautions to make sure they tackle the problem and provide the solution.

By such collaboration between the police and the community,many issues will solve, and it'll help the community to live peaceful. Also by using with such tactics, the police will solve difference cases and early warning signs activities that may not even happen.

07/11/2024

Here are some additional resources and information on criminology:

*Criminological Theories:*

1. Classical Theory: Focuses on rational choice and deterrence.
2. Positivist Theory: Examines biological, psychological, and social factors.
3. Strain Theory: Looks at societal pressures and deviance.
4. Social Learning Theory: Explores learning criminal behavior.
5. Control Theory: Examines social bonds and control.

*Forensic Science:*

1. DNA Analysis
2. Fingerprinting
3. Ballistics
4. Digital Forensics
5. Crime Scene Investigation

*Crime Prevention Strategies:*

1. Community Policing
2. Neighborhood Watch
3. Crime Mapping
4. Predictive Policing
5. Restorative Justice

*Criminal Justice Reform:*

1. Sentencing Reform
2. Prison Reform
3. Police Accountability
4. Mental Health and Crime
5. Juvenile Justice Reform

*Career Paths in Criminology:*

1. FBI Agent
2. Crime Analyst
3. Forensic Scientist
4. Probation Officer
5. Criminology Researcher

*Recommended Books:*

1. "The Crime Book" by DK Publishing
2. "Criminology: Theories, Patterns, and Typologies" by Larry Siegel
3. "The Oxford Handbook of Criminology" edited by Robert Reiner

*Online Resources:*

1. National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
2. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
3. American Society of Criminology (ASC)
4. Criminology Research Council (CRC)
5. (link unavailable)

*Academic Journals:*

1. Criminology
2. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
3. Justice Quarterly
4. Journal of Crime and Justice
5. British Journal of Criminology

06/11/2024

*Criminology*: The scientific study of crime, criminal behavior, and the criminal justice system.

*Subfields:*

1. Theoretical Criminology (understanding crime causes)
2. Empirical Criminology (researching crime patterns)
3. Critical Criminology (examining social, economic, and political contexts)
4. Forensic Criminology (applying science to crime investigation)

*Purpose of studying Criminology:*

1. Understand crime causes and patterns
2. Develop effective crime prevention strategies
3. Improve criminal justice systems and policies
4. Enhance public safety and security
5. Inform evidence-based practices in law enforcement, courts, and corrections
6. Address social, economic, and political factors contributing to crime
7. Prepare professionals for careers in law enforcement, research, and policy

*Career paths:*

1. Law Enforcement (police, sss, NIA, NDLEA, DIA,etc.)
2. Research and Policy Analysis
3. Forensic Science
4. Corrections and Rehabilitation
5. Probation and Parole
6. Juvenile Justice
7. Private Security
8. Intelligence Analysis
9. Academic Research

*Key concepts:*

1. Crime types (violent, property, white-collar, etc.)
2. Criminological theories (classical, positivist, strain, etc.)
3. Criminal justice systems (police, courts, corrections)
4. Forensic science (DNA, fingerprints, etc.)
5. Research methods (quantitative, qualitative)

*Influential criminologists:*

1. Cesare Beccaria
2. Jeremy Bentham
3. Émile Durkheim
4. Robert Merton
5. Travis Hirschi

*Real-world applications:*

1. Crime mapping and hot spot analysis
2. Predictive policing
3. Community-based crime prevention programs
4. Restorative justice initiatives
5. Evidence-based sentencing guidelines

Studying criminology helps us better understand the complexities of crime and the criminal justice system, ultimately contributing to safer, more just societies.

05/10/2024

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03/06/2023

CONSEQUENCES OF DABA ACTIVITIES

The following are some of the underpinning consequences of Yan Daba activities

Arising from the Yan Daba activities was the issue of insecurity. Therefore, Security can simply

be defined as a measure that ensures peaceful co-existence, stability and orderliness, that

guarantees the absence of fear, threats, anxiety, tension and the apprehension of losing life,

liberty, property or other important goals and values. According to Aja (1999:31), “a nation is

secure to the extent that it is not in a position to lose core values, lives, properties and liberties

and if it wishes to deter aggression or win war when it is unavoidable”. Therefore, the security

concept provides for an enabling environment or atmosphere of good socio-political orderliness

in a system. In other words, the relationship between lives, services rendered and security is very

important. It serves as a protective measure, medium, substance and shield or insulator of life

from all other dangerous sectors, in order to achieve its ultimate goals and values. Waever (1995) associates the concept of security threat to security problems that undermine the

security of any nation or community and relates it to various “developments that threaten the

sovereignty or independence of a state in a particularly rapid or dramatic fashion and deprive it

of the capacity to manage by itself, this in turn undercuts the political order. Such a threat must

therefore be met with the mobilisation of the maximum effort (Waever, 1995: 54). Similarly, a

security threat can be described as the capacity of any human or non-human element to destroy

the vital interests of others considered as targets.

Daba violence, especially in urban cities in Nigeria, has shown that hundreds of people, mostly

youths, have been killed, many injured and property worth millions of Naira destroyed. These

incidents have drained the state treasury and slowed down social-economic

03/06/2023

FACTORS OF 'YAN DABA
act became the first victims as it happened during the April, 2011 post-election violence in
various states in the north. Electoral corruption includes purchase of votes with money, promises
of office or special favors, coercion, intimidation, and interference with freedom of election and
the northern region is a good example where this practice is common. Votes are bought, people
are killed in the name of election while, losers end up as the winners in elections, and votes turn
up in areas where votes were not cast.
To this end, corruption as alleged is pandemic in the north and among the northerners simply of
the believed that they constantly in control of political landscape of the country. Most of the
fraudulent excises occurred in various ministries and agencies are with the collaboration of the
northerners. Corruption therefore, is a behavior which deviates from the formal duties of a public
role, because of private gains through Personal and close family, private clique, status gains
regardless of its implications.
Similarly, poverty leading to widening gap between the ruled and the rulers has resulted has also
contributed to rising of violent crimes in Nigeria. The classes have widened and the condition of
the exploited workers alike have deteriorated so badly that almost all the social structures in the
country have collapsed. The increased incidence and intensity of undisciplined behavior have
reached a conspicuous mark as once lamented by Achebe that more than 60% of the Nigerian
wealth was consumed through corruption from 1979-1983 of the second Republic. What Achebe
concluded is not far from what is obtainable in the present dispensation. Accordingly, some
quotas in Nigeria have been described as the most corrupt and endemic society. However, it is
not peculiar to any region and ethnic group but rather the entire country. Although, it is more
conspicuous in some areas and it cuts across faiths

03/06/2023

Factors Responsible for the Resurgence of Daba Activities
Historically, political violence in Nigeria can be traced to the legacies of the trans-Saharan and
trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism in Africa, in which societies were rampaged and
ravaged through numerous invasions and invaders (Ngaji, 2003). Furthermore, (Ngaji, 2003)
stated that between 1951 and 1960, the Nigeria state was regionalized into three major groups:
the North, the East and the West. These regions were carved out based on cultural and ethnic
considerations. However, some ethnic groups within the regions began to dominate the political
economy of their respective regions due their numerical strength. This has further given rise to
ethnic sentiments and the distinction within the provincial strata became very apparent, thus
calumniating to the majority and minority trend. Ethnicity, he added, was therefore strengthened
within the various regions and attempts were made by major groups like Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa
to culturally expand to other parts of the country as a way of consolidating their authority. Such
trends become a common norm among the politicians to employ party thugs and bodyguards,
armed with dangerous weapons.
Corruption is also identified as another major factor affecting peace and development in the
north and Nigeria as a whole is the issue of corruption. This is because epidemic corruption by
political office holders and civil servants at all levels of the government usually the citizens in
the area denied the opportunity of having the basic necessities of life. Most often, resources
meant for a particular project for a particular area in most cases are diverted to private individual
accounts through various ways. The alleged monies distributed to all traditional and religious
leaders during April 2011 general elections would serve as a clear testimony. Consequently,
when violence erupted, some of the unemployed citizens targeted som

03/06/2023

SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF DABA
However, Yan Daba, lacked the negativism of the delinquent gangs or the short-term hedonism
that goes with street gangs. Retreat to drugs and s*x, both elements of the sociology of modern
gangs were absent. As a strictly male affair then, Yan Daba respected the cannon of the
community of parallel but complementary socialisation of different s*xes as is common in
orthodox Muslim communities. Yan Daba in their original form were not seen as deviants
(Kushee, 2008:199-212).
The Yan Daba mostly lived on the fringes of society, in secluded places spending most of the
time in petty hunting and theft, at market places and living in unfinished or abandoned buildings
(their hideouts). When not on hunting or thieving operations, live together in a form of
communal life, sharing Indian h**p (Cannabis), other more dangerous drugs and Burukutu (a
locally brewed alcohol) (Ya‟u, 2000:161-80). The contemporary identity of the Yan Daba is
completed by a predisposition to violence. Ojudu and Zorro (1988) captured the nature of the
violence of the Yan Daba, when they stated that: “They are not run of the mill thieves, the be***al
men whose goal is to inflict harm on their victims. They storm houses, such as para-troopers,
inflict injuries on their victims, r**e, sometimes kill and most often take nothing with them”
(Ojudu & Zorro (1988) as cited in Ya‟u (2000:161).
According to Wakili (2005: 484-503), the Yan Daba group largely come from among the
unemployed youth who, as a means of escaping from both their poor social background and
adverse economic conditions, take refuge in group violence. They live in secluded places called
Dada. Dada implies uncompleted buildings, illegal structures and around markets, motor parks
and along roadsides. Most Yan Daba members of the youth gangs are from poor families, jobless
and users of hard drugs and other intoxicants

03/06/2023

Socio-economic Characteristics of Yan Daba
In Nigeria, the Yan Daba urban gang phenomenon was a product of socio-economic and political
conditions of contemporary Nigerian society. The Yan Daba groups, who transformed from
hunters to political gangsters and later urban gangsters are largely unemployed and are in the
vanguard in the ex*****on of violence in the recurring ethnic/religious violence in Kano (Bako,
1994; Yau, 1999). Bako further argued that the root of violence among the youth can be located
in the unprecedented poverty as well as the massive unemployment hunger and deprivation
among the youth thus providing an avenue for the involvement in the ethno-religious conflicts
across the country.
The Yan Daba urban gang also trained them to acquire the values and skills the society expected
them to have in order to prepare them for an acceptable adulthood. It was a means of
socialisation and a form of a passing rite into adulthood. In this respect the Yan Daba gangs were
not only harmless groups but also provided certain social services to their neighbourhood. These
include community work such as cleaning and clearing of the environment, protection of the
environment especially against theft, leadership training and collective mutual assistance such as
during ceremonies or in bad times. They also assist the law enforcement such as community
policing formation, acts as traffic wardens such as in areas where people are many and the road
is choked. The Yan Daba gangs‟ activities also provided outlets for sporting and cultural events
for community entertainment, with keen contest among various neighbourhood groups. The
background of the typical Yan Daba then was peasant based and, therefore, physical powers and
endurance were most valued. The Yan Daba were expected to be fearless, tough and capable of
comforting or withstanding dangerous encounters and situations. Any sign of weakness was seen
as unmanly and disgraceful

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