If humanity evolves to higher intelligence, then will police survive as a missing link?

[Boojatta]

I presume that there were police long before there was widespread literacy. Why didn't our ancestors employ missing link species as police? Perhaps if they had done that, then there would be greater biodiversity in the world today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/100296256

[ixion]

1. They'll be like bigfoot.

We'll occasionally catch a few seconds of grainy film footage of them running off into the woods with a can of pepper spray, and we'll debate if such an entity would be capable of survival.

[hifiguy]

4. Bigfoot should get rid of them

within a half-generation or so. Bigfoot, after all, is smarter.

[bemildred]

2. Are they going to interbreed? nt

[izquierdista]

3. Are you fishing for a grant?

To look for long lost Neanderthal genes in modern police officers?

[Speck Tater]

5. Usually a new species emerges that wipes out the prior one.

So humanity won't evolve to a higher state. Instead, humanity will be wiped out by our successor. And there's a chance that successor might be dumber, but better equipped to survive by virtue of being more bloodthirsty and violent.