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n. (plural of police state English)
Usage examples of "police states".
You know, I've been in police states where the cops weren't as much trouble as here.
Both were police states in which the individual citizen had lost all right to juridical defense, and both operated under a totally controlled economy.
And they proceeded to create police states in their own countries.
England cannot possibly be allowed to remain as a sort of funnel through which deadly ideas from beyond the Atlantic flow into the police states of Europe.
They don't fuck around with terrorists in police states, of buddy.
One would assume they learned their trade in one of the more repressive police states.
Perhaps the controlling reason lies in the fact that the free speech of democracies results in criticism and correction, whereas in police states a mistake goes on indefinitely.