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It has the most incarcerated people per capita of any country in the world. That's enough to qualify it as a police state in my mind.


It is kind of humorous that you change the definition of police state because you want so badly to call the US a police state.

"A nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy."

Not exactly a great fit.




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