bitchass OP waters down what "police state" means, and will never and has never lived in or around one. stfu with the whining already, some people are a little too busy fighting what common-sense dictates is worth fighting for, and some douche-towel throwing a temper tantrum over a law he doesn't like isn't one of them, and it's certainly not indicative of a "police state" you lame.
"It often takes a great deal of intelligence to see that which is right before our eyes." [Edmond Duranty]
Police states do not manifest overnight. They emerge slowly, one little step at a time. And when they finally rear up and declare their presence to citizens lulled by generations of freedom it is too late to do anything about it (see Spain under Franco, Iran under Pahlavi, Chile under Pinochet, et al).
I am old enough to remember a time in America when the structure, nature and performance of today's police agencies would not be tolerated. Use the following links to see what I'm talking about and which you obviously are unaware of:
Botched Paramilitary Police Raids
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf
Little by little . . .