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Institution: Policing
The enforcement and order layer — the pre-arrest half of the law — of the Institution suite of RimWorld 1.6 mods.
Vanilla RimWorld keeps a rap sheet no one reads, and your own colonists never break the law. Policing gives the colony a climate of law and order over the shared criminal record: colonists offend on a seeded propensity spectrum, the law catches them, and catching one changes the disposition of the rest.
Catching and punishing one pawn changes the disposition of the rest.
That is the difference between enforcement that cleans up and enforcement that governs — the reason to punish an offender is the message it sends everyone else quietly deciding whether crime pays.
The pages
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Policing | Colony crime on the propensity spectrum, witnesses and the constable work type, the weighed arrest and resistance, prison riots, the recidivism alert. |
| Deterrence | The colony's climate of order (0 lawless … 1 iron), moved by crime and punishment, drifting to baseline, fed back into every pawn's disposition through Core's seam. |
At load, PolicingBootstrap fills the neutral deterrence seam Core leaves open — reconnecting the
feedback loop across the mod boundary without Core ever depending on the policing layer.
The one shared record
Policing keeps no per-pawn crime state of its own. It reads and writes the single CriminalRecord that
Institution: Core holds for every pawn — the same record Contraband, Corrections, and the gang
systems read. RecordCrime writes the crimesCommitted / lastCrimeTick columns; Corrections grades
and reforms over the same numbers.
Requirements & load order
- RimWorld 1.6
- Institution: Core — required (the propensity/record engine)
- Harmony — required
- Load after Core and Harmony.
The prison half — classification, discipline, reform, parole, regime — lives in Institution: Corrections, which depends on this layer for the shared climate of order. A future Judiciary layer (a court that tries and sentences) is reserved as a Core seam; today an arrest imprisons directly.
Part of the Institution suite for RimWorld 1.6: Core · Contraband · Policing · Corrections · Gangs · Ward. Split out of the former Institution: Justice.