A secret police is something different from officers without uniforms. A secret police is an instrument of the ruling party to oppress opposition and are part of a "justice" system outside of the official one, e.g. secret police can arrest you on whatever charges (don't have to be revealed) and you'll be put into a secret prison where your relatives can't find you. The fact that they don't wear uniforms goes beyond why regular police goes it: it's to create an atmosphere of fear that everyone around you could be secret police, and that they can just arrest you, and there's nothing you can do.
Yes. Secret Police makes people never relax. You never know who's watching, you never know who's listening. Your neighbours and teachers could be informants too. Apartment buildings are built with thin walls so you are not safe even within your own home. It's a constant source of terror.
It's also why people older than me don't talk to strangers, and especially, to foreigners.
Sooooo, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, the DEA...
Take your pick.
e.g. secret police can arrest you on whatever charges (don’t have to be revealed)
1984 Bail Reform Act
2001 PATRIOT Act
Literally 1984
secret police can arrest you on whatever charges (don’t have to be revealed) and you’ll be put into a secret prison where your relatives can’t find you
Like the CIA blacksites, Gitmo, the Fed vans that pulled and kidnapped protestors during the BLM protests? Or the fact that police can get away with murder in broad daylight and people who fight it are labeled terrorists who hate the country?
Yeah, plains clothes officer in the US. You're repeating the meme.
Oh so the international FBI, what was it called? ah CIA right
Literally 1984
Plain clothes are always incredibly obvious and oblivious to that fact. I've known them to stop and search people because they are baffled someone spotted them.
Instigate the "violent demonstration". Then quickly walk away. A timeless classic.
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Top should be German. Stasi vibes
