Editing Lagos (section)

== Crime ==
The [[Council on Foreign Relations]]' Nigeria Security Tracker<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |title=Nigeria Security Tracker |url=https://www.cfr.org/nigeria/nigeria-security-tracker/p29483 |access-date=19 August 2023 |website=Council on Foreign Relations |language=en}}</ref> continuously records [[homicide]]s ([[murder]], [[manslaughter]], etc.) by criminals, religious zealots (such as Boko Haram) and police attacks in Nigeria for each state.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Hernando Gómez Buendía |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AU46AAAAMAAJ |title=Urban crime: global trends and policies |date=13 July 2007 |publisher=United Nations University, 1989 (University of Michigan) |isbn=978-9-280-8067-93 |page=141}}</ref>

Strikingly, according to the NST, Nigeria's two largest cities, Lagos and [[Kano (city)|Kano]], are significantly ''safer'' than rural areas when it comes to homicides. For Lagos State, the NST shows 135 such violent deaths in the past 24 months (as of July 2023), or 5.6 annually for every million inhabitants (for comparison, the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdoms]]' crime statistics in 2022 counted 10 homicides per million inhabitants<ref>{{Cite web |title=UK homicide rate 2022 |url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/288195/homicide-rate-uk/ |access-date=19 August 2023 |website=Statista |language=en}}</ref> or [[Turkey]]'s 24<ref>{{Cite web |title=Türkei – Mordrate |url=https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/693588/umfrage/mordrate-in-der-tuerkei/ |access-date=19 August 2023 |website=Statista |language=de}}</ref>). For Nigeria as a whole, this figure is 93, with 62% of these cases attributable to [[Police brutality|police violence]] (mainly [[Vigilantism|vigilante justice]]). [[Boko Haram]] plays a negligible role (as of 2023) in Lagos.<ref name=":13" />