Expert Opinion: Why Can’t We Get the law enforcement officers We Want?

By Richard Musaazi There is a huge gap between how we want to be policed, how the police want to police us and how we are actually policed. Why there is this gap and what can be done about it? The brutality exhibited by Uganda’s police force is a result of a number of factors. These include its beginnings under

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Militarizing Police Sets Up Citizens as the Enemy-Expert View

The message sent to police through arming them with military equipment is that they are in fact at war.  The killing of more 54 people by Uganda police on 18 and 19 of November 2020 left parts of Ugandan cities looking like battle zones. What is clear from the police is that despite our efforts to promote de-escalation through our articles,

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Army & Police ordered to End Bobi Wine’s house arrest

Court has ordered the military and police to leave the home of opposition politician Bobi Wine. He has not left his house in the outskirts of the capital Kampala since voting in the presidential election 11 days ago, in which he was declared runner-up to President Yoweri Museveni.

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