police state

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My Tunisian friends were right: A police state looks stable only until the day it is not.
我的突尼斯朋友是對的：一個(gè)警察國家表麪看起來穩(wěn)定，但終會(huì)有期。
Ever since the 2012 Olympics in London, Britain has become more and more of a database police state.
自2012年倫敦?cái)H辦奧運(yùn)會(huì)後，英國就瘉加明顯地成爲(wèi)一個(gè)信息數(shù)據(jù)的極權(quán)國家。
Yet the family had no illusions about the restrictions and dangers of life in the East German police state.
然而她的家庭對充滿限制與危險(xiǎn)的東德極權(quán)國家的不抱任何幻想。

He says this means establishing the rule of law, rejecting the idea of a police state and supporting the separation of power.
He says the government has turned this country into a police state and this is illegal.
Last year, the California Police Chiefs Association released a report on marijuana dispensaries in the state.

Iraq is no longer a dictatorship, though still something of a violent police state.
ECONOMIST: Iraq and the Pentagon

a country in which the government uses the police to severely limit people's freedom

A police state is a country in which the government controls people's freedom by means of the police, especially secret police.