Don't understand what you're trying to say. Both of those pictures were taken in the same country.
either you don't understand it or you don't want to acknowledge my point, considering "they were taken in the same country" doesn't invalidate it.
Top picture is normal police officers in uniform, doing forget all knows.
Bottom two are police in full on swat gear during the Boston Bombings during when Martial Law was declared.
A police state is political but it also has everything to do with how scary police look, you can still have a police officer in normal uniform and it still be a police state but that'd be a rarity as shown in the pictures during Martial Law, and no matter what a Police State is forgeted so don't go around preaching it.
But it really doesn't though...
m8 read what I just said, it's political but also has everything to do with the gear of the police officers themselves. You don't call Martial Law then send out a bunch of police officers in uniform.