Definition of police state in US English:
police state
nounpəˈlēs ˈstātpəˈlis ˈsteɪt
A totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens' activities.
Example sentencesExamples
- We certainly do not need another front man for imperialist aggression around the world and a police state at home.
- Bit by bit this government is building a police state, and it must be stopped.
- There have been decades of experience here of police states - both fascist and Stalinist.
- Smokers are being treated like lepers, the new outcasts in a health police state gone out of control.
- Wouldn't a police state be a timocracy as defined by Plato?
- On the other hand, cooperation with corrupt law enforcement organizations - or with police forces from police states - compromises our own law enforcement process.
- Never shall we allow a conglomerated media or a fascist police state to control our minds and our way of life.
- The main aim of the speech was to justify the growing accumulation of private wealth and the growth of an authoritarian police state.
- This is supposed to be a democracy not a dictatorship: deploying the police and the regiment to frighten and intimidate citizens are strategies utilised by most dictatorship and police states.
- Even dictatorships and police states have fewer citizens behind bars.
- In their political systems, they created police states, one-party systems led by a charismatic dictator.
- Its another step towards a police state where control is active.
- In the name of the so-called ‘war on terror’ the framework of a police state is being put in place.
- All attempts by socialists to change that fact have been abject failures, ending in Soviet police states, or fascist victory or a sterile capitalism where workers learn to hug their chains.
- By the looks of things you are going to be a police state soon.
- The majority of the ‘western’ nations here are patriarchal police states.
- It has become a police state where we haven't got any human rights.
- The practice of detaining people in the streets and busting into their homes and workplaces to check on their identification is common in police states.
- Politically, they functioned as police states, with an absence of elementary democratic rights.
- No, the last dictatorships in the United States, which were the police states of Mississippi and Alabama, were taken down through peaceful protest that spurred legislation.