MFW somebody uses a word that they don't know the definition of.
Hint: move to North Korea, an actual police state, then come back to us and tell us exactly how the US mirrors North Korea by being a police state.
You can't post some videos of police brutality as examples of being a police state, because they are different things (which is why we use different words for them). Now, if you have an issue with police brutality, that certainly can use some discussion, but please don't use vocabulary that you haven't learned in school yet...because, oftentimes like now, you end up using it incorrectly.
Police brutality is the primary component of a police state.
The pure definition of a
police state is a government's use of civil police to oppressively control a population which is dissatisfied with that government's imposed policies. The more brutal, militarized and
detached the civil police are from the public category, the more readily compliant the intimidated public will be.
Anyone who is older than age fifty is clearly aware of the transition occurring in the nature, character and function of the civil police in recent years. While changes in the nature and character of American society in general have prompted certain changes in the character and performance of the civil police the issues of
excessive force and
unnecessary enforcement have a critical level and the public is beginning to respond to it.