Social Evolution: Community Policing in Insects

Social Evolution: Community Policing in Insects

A recent study shows that, in social insects where workers suppress or 'police' the reproduction of nestmate workers, only a subset of workers act as police. This confirms that policing can serve a collective rather than a selfish interest.

Policing Relative Conflicts of Interest in Social Insects

Social Evolution: Policing without Genetic Conflict

Insect societies have evolved ways of policing selfish behaviour that arises due to genetic conflicts within the colony. A new case of policing in an ant where colony members are genetically identical highlights the role of colony economics for policing.

Experimental evolution of selfish policing in social bacteria.

Cooperative organisms evolve within socially diverse populations. In populations harboring both cooperators and cheaters, cooperators might adapt by evolving novel interactions with either social type or both. Diverse animal traits suppress selfish behaviors when cooperation is important for fitness, but the potential for prokaryotes to evolve such traits is unclear. We allowed a strain of the ...

COMMUNITY POLICING: Training Issues

*Editorial and writing assistance provided by Bonnie Pollard. Introduction* The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications that community policing has for police officer training, as well as to examine the issue those implications raise. Outlining the boundaries of these concerns is important, because community policing differs radically from traditions policing, such as motor patrol,...