With a recovery rate below 10%, most stolen works are never found. But that doesn’t mean they’re easy to monetize.
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The jewel theft in Paris was carried out using simple tools.
Unfair criminalisation of itinerant traders has been used to justify curbing street hawking in the traffic in Lagos.
Many jurisdictions treat pet theft like property theft, assigning dogs dollar values and failing to account for their emotional importance.
To defeat armed banditry in its north-west region, Nigeria needs to adopt a new approach to policing.
Security companies suggest that criminals take advantage of the fact that many home and business security systems get compromised during power outages.
Whether crime is up or down depends on what kind of crime, what the comparison is to, and where you’re counting crimes.
Nigeria should consider embracing a decentralised policing system as community mobilisation during COVID lockdown ensured law and order.
In 2013 stories emerged of gangs stealing plasma TV screens to use to make street drugs. It’s a myth, but it tells us something about South Africa’s social anxieties.
Nigeria’s forests are used by terrorists, kidnappers, cannabis cultivators, cattle rustlers and robbers.
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