In recent times, many issues have risen about the workings of the Nigeria police force. The incessant nature of police brutality to civilian citizens have been on the steady rise and the media is sometime an unwilling tool towards brandishing individuals guilty even before being tried, as detained individuals are labeled criminals even before trial.
The attitude by policemen to always have prison cells filled to the brim so as to extract bail from terrified parents and family members by labeling their children as hardened criminals.
Recently in Benin City, the Edo state capital, Some young men coming from the farm where arrested by policemen for the possession of cutlass, which was termed http://www.ireporteronline.com/p17376_police-brutality-and-the-rule-of-law