[Cincinnatus.45-70]

This is why progressive totalitarians want to have a national police subject to big brother. Elected sheriffs are quite often motivated to protect citizens, unlike the ideal Stasi police force.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep. One of the tactics of a totalitarian regime is to bring in JBTs from areas far outside of the local population so that they don’t have the relational ties to the community.