[Alberta's Child]

Are the riots, thug behavior, knockout game, burglary, robbery, looting, arson, high homicide rate symptomatic of the “police state”?

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.

[Pirate Ragnar]

You are contradicting yourself. Is writing a “mean” traffic ticket and not doing much else indicative of a police state?