Police state / No justice no peace

A police state describes a state where its government institutions exercise an extreme level of control over civil society and liberties characterized by the overbearing presence of civil authorities. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and authoritarian regimes. The best-known literary treatment of the police state is George Orwell's novel 1984, which describes Britain under a totalitarian régime that continuously invokes (and feeds) a perpetual war as a pretext for subjecting the people to mass surveillance, policing, and modification of language and the way people think in order to make dissent not only swiftly punished, but also grammatically and logically…   Read more

"No justice, no peace" is a political slogan that originated during protests against acts of ethnic violence against African Americans. The slogan became associated in the late 1980s with Black protests against racist and police violence in New York City. The phrase calls attention to the persistent failure to hold police accountable. But the concern about justice also extends to education, economics, health, and more. If justice isn?t done in the face of such chronic injustice, the slogan says, we?re going to continue to disturb the peace until it is. Second, the expression speaks to a basic moral logic: Without justice, it?s not possible to have peace.