This is the definition of a police state, with law enforcement officers empowering themselves and demanding to go through your personal papers, how dehumanizing

This is the definition of a police state, with law enforcement officers empowering themselves and demanding to go through your personal papers, how dehumanizing is this? What is the difference between this and the stasi or the police of any totalitarian state demanding to go through your personal papers? There is a huge difference between physically checking your laptop or phone and demanding to go through its contents and your personal data and thoughts. This is hugely invasive and dehumanizing and is the definition of totalitarianism. The word democracy by definition cannot include this. Even more disturbing is the cognitive dissonance of those who have complete moral clarity when condemning police state tactics in some third country and then stretching credulity to normalize the exact same thing when done by their own governments or 'democracies'. The is the dangerous road to totalitarianism where values are not defined by actions but actors.