It is time that we stepped back to think critically: is there another way to fight domestic crimes and terrorism? What about amending our constitution to allow “community policing” (as opposed to “state policing”)? Community police would be composed of the people from the community. The community police is likely to have the support of the community and would obtain better intelligence, with the support of the community, to identify terrorist organization members. The community police would nor kill its citizens indiscriminately as there would be better sensitivity since members of the community that is served socialize together in the church, mosque, market, school, etc., with the members of the community police. When required, the community police would obtain funding and resources from the state or federal government.

If we think far into the future, it is clear that the Nigerian Police or Army can’t effectively fight crime and terrorism in far flung communities across Nigeria. Local/community policing is worth experimenting with to determine if they would be far more effective and, if so, we should then adopt this structure.