The Stalin, Hilter, Mao, etc. created secret police and whatnot to enforce their continued rule. They are despised mostly for what their rule entailed, not for having secret police.

We're* creating secret police but in the absence of an oppressive government for them to act on the whims of nobody much cares.

It'll get worse before it gets better.

* We = most nations formerly on the "right" side of the iron curtain