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Police State?
How do you know when you are living in a police state? What is a police state anyway?
Definitions first…
1. a state controlled by a political police force that the citizens’ activities. (from Oxford Language Dictionary)
2. a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures (Webster)
3. a in which the uses the to people’s . (Canbridge)
4. Last, but not least — in this case not least by a long shot: A police state describes a whose institutions exercise an extreme level of control over and . There is typically little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of by the , and the deployment of and forces play a heightened role in . A police state is a characteristic of , or (contrary to a ). Such governments are typically and…
