The Libs, Obama, Holder, Sharpton, Jackson are selling the “out of control police state” line. We, who are correctly cautious of government, must be cautious of picking up that mantra.
Are the riots, thug behavior, knockout game, burglary, robbery, looting, arson, high homicide rate symptomatic of the “police state”?
There are bad cops, lawyers, doctors, priests. To smear the totality of any group is emotional and weak thinking.
A lot of these things take place in jurisdictions with enormous police departments -- many of which are filled with people who can write a mean traffic ticket and that's about it. That itself is a major symptom of a police state.