Policing Offloaded

A Plea for Harm Reduction Policing Involving People Who Use Drugs

Towards Flexible Offloading in Mobile-Cloud Computing

Mobile-cloud computing seeks to boost mobile devices by offloading compute-intensive tasks in mobile applications to more powerful machines. Existing mobile-cloud systems use a restricted strategy of computation and communication, which limits the scope of offloaded tasks and the applications that can utilize offloading. We explore the opportunities and challenges of relaxing this strategy alon...

Professional and Community Oriented Policing: the Mayberry Model

A new descriptive metaphor of two policing strategies, Professional Policing and CommunityOriented Policing (COP), is created in this paper. This is done by examining the individual policing styles of the two officers of the Mayberry, NC Sheriff’s Department. Mayberry is a fictional town popularized by the Andy Griffith Show. Deputy Fife exemplifies the Professional Policing model, while Sherif...

The enforcement of cooperation by policing.

Policing is regarded as an important mechanism for maintaining cooperation in human and animal social groups. A simple model providing a theoretical overview of the coevolution of policing and cooperation has been analyzed by Frank (1995, 1996b, 2003, 2009), and this suggests that policing will evolve to fully suppress cheating within social groups when relatedness is low. Here, we relax some o...

Specialization in policing behaviour among workers in the ant Pachycondyla inversa.

Most animal societies are non-clonal and thus subject to conflicts. In social insects, conflict over male production can be resolved by worker policing, i.e. eating of worker-laid eggs (WLE) or aggression towards reproductive workers. All workers in a colony have an interest in policing behaviour being expressed, but there can be asymmetries among workers in performing the actual behaviour. Her...