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(13,382 posts)"Police State Definition
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n. noun
A state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the people, especially by means of a secret police force.
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Police state is a term that originally designated a state regulated by a civil administration, but since the middle of the 20th Century, the term has "taken on the emotional and derogatory meaning of a government that exercises power arbitrarily through the police."
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noun 1. a nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy."