Synonyms for police state
po·lice state

Princeton's WordNet

1. police statenoun

   a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)

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1. • Dictatorship

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1. The Canadian Association of Journalists:

   We remind B.C. RCMP that Canada is not a police state, police do not have the right to control what is published.

2. Hisham Genena:

   I am keen on the success of any president because his success is our success... but the attitude I'm seeing of using a security grip or reproducing the police state will not be productive, when political parties are absent, NGOs are absent, local media is being crushed, international media too... is that a sign of a healthy environment in which a country can flourish?

3. Andrew Yao:

   I don't see a pivot to a police state where they can come arrest us.

4. Sam Goldman:

   I genuinely do want to see the end to being murdered by the police ... I want to see that there is no more police state.

5. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz:

   We don't have any system that knocks on the doors of every person in America, we also don't have people going door-to-door looking for murderers. We don't live in a police state. We do have law enforcement.