It occurred to me recently that there are several forms of police state. What most people mean when they say police state is when there is political intent to c

It occurred to me recently that there are several forms of police state. What most people mean when they say police state is when there is political intent to create a police state, a good example of this being the Stasi. However this political intention is not required to end up in a very similar situation. The thing is, the only thing that is required for a police state to form is that enough resources be available to the police and a framework that allows them to use those resources with impunity. It does not really matter how or why those resources were originally allocated.