You don't imprison everyone, you imprison a few unlucky citizens and the rest is shitting their pants "it could be me". Fighting a population would escalate, ta

You don't imprison everyone, you imprison a few unlucky citizens and the rest is shitting their pants "it could be me". Fighting a population would escalate, targeting single individuals spreads fear as they are just a few people whose case can be manipulated so the public opinion is divided. A difference between how regimes and 'democratic' countries operate.