[Don Myers]

"With 5% of the world's population and 25% of its prison inmates, we'd better be comfortable with it."

The presence of a large number of criminals in a nation doesn't make it a police state. It just makes it a country with a lot of criminals.

[Ace the Biker]

It could also mean that most of the criminals in the rest of the world are walking around free.

I don't have a problem believing that this is probably the case.