In a police state, basic freedoms are suppressed. Freedom of the press, freedom of speech are the enemies of the police state. In America, there is no state-imposed restrictions on these freedoms that I'm aware of.

In a police state, arrest and imprisonment take place against political enemies of the state due to their political loyalties. Such arrest and imprisonment takes place without necessary evidence, a fair trial, or any other procedure that could be called due process of law. Our constitution stands in open opposition to this kind of police repression, and I believe it rarely takes place. 99 percent of prisoners in the US are there not because they are politically repressed, but because they have committed crimes against their fellow citizens.

To call the US a Police State is merely inflammatory rhetoric that libels America, while trivializing the abject terror and repression of REAL police states, whose citizens must take their lives in their hands to speak out in opposition to them.