The measures that will be applied here will be two: (1) the percentage of the population who are in prisons and (2) the percentage of the population who have been shot dead by police during the latest tabulated year. That usage would be based upon rankings, according to reasonably reliable numerical measures, as being the basis for an objective comparison of countries and, so, this will actually be done here - not the normal, propagandistic, usage of the phrase “police state.” This is about only actual police states.
However, objective usage of the phrase “police state” is also possible (though far less common). and its allies and one must always be aware of the propagandistic usage of such phrases or words as “police state,” and “regime,” because the speaker or writer might actually represent that, more than does the government which that person is propagandistically attacking. So, there is a lot of hypocrisy in many common usages, of the phrase “police state,” by the U.S. It’s a ‘justification’ for international war-crimes. This phrase is just a tool to ‘justify’ an invasion. This is merely one example of a ‘police state’, as that phrase is commonly employed. They wreck the ‘police state’, and then abandon it. The aggressor-country alleges itself to be attacking the target-country because that target-country is ‘a police state’ and ‘violates human rights’ - and the aggressor and its allies have continued this ‘civil war’ against Syria ever since 2012, destroying Syria and refusing to pay even a cent for restitution and reconstruction in Syria.
did against Syria, hiring Al Qaeda and Kurdish separatists as ‘rebels’ there, to bring regime-change to Syria - all the while labelling as “a police state” the government that the aggressor is trying to overthrow. The phrase “police state” is used propagandistically to denigrate a foreign nation that one’s own government and its news-media don’t like and might even be hoping to conquer by means of subversion, or sanctions, or coup, or perhaps invasion by either the aggressor’s own troops or else hiring mercenaries - such as, for example, the U.S. did against Iraq before invading it in 2003, and against Libya and Syria since 2011, and against Venezuela since 2012, and against Ukraine since 2013, and in all instances destroyed those countries, allegedly to ‘bring democracy and human rights and the rule of law, and fight against corruption’ there (as if that were honestly the intention)? Is the phrase “police state” anything more than propaganda that a government uses against a foreign government that it wants to overthrow - such as the U.S.
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