America is a Police state. Qualifiers:
1. Surveillance state. The amount of surveillance information our police now purchase from private companies would make the old Soviets drule.
2. Separate rules for the Police with qualified immunity protections. Singapore doesn't give it's Police qualified immunity protections unless serving warrants. There are two different rules of law in the US, those that apply to the normies, and those that apply to law enforcement.
3. Mass incarceration.
4. Making so much illegal that 'selective enforcement' can be used as a tool of coercion. Just coming up on the Police radar (even if you are someone that reported something) leads to a significantly higher chance of incarceration in the US.