By your completely arbitrary definition of a police state, then NYC is a police state as are americas airports.

Reality is, this country is a police state, it is the modern one, and it is pumped full of government propaganda about how it isn't a police state and how all these police state actions are justified so that people are able to continue to delude themselves.

Frankly most of the police abuses are simply never reported in mainstream media.

But the reality is, depending on where you draw the line, either this is already a police state or it is well on its way.