Again: I don't think you're accurate here. The Pasco County case kept heavy surveillance of children by trawling every school in the county and systemically categorizing every child in the county by GPA, Attendance, credit count, etc. to identify which children to put under heavy specific surveillance (e.g. showing up dozens of times at family members workplaces unprompted and with no suspicion of crime) effectively harassing entire whole families out of the county.

I would 100% consider screening every child to identify future criminals and then cracking down on their families, including unprompted visits to workplaces dozens of times, to be police state stuff.

In a small community where everyone knows everyone you don't need equipment to run a surveillance state.

What about medium communities? Tech is very scalable, federal antiterror funds are significant, and surveillance is a profit center for police forces. Many medium police forces fund the majority of their budget through fines and fees.

Police state doesn't mean surveillance

Small town budgets don’t stop pigs from using surveillance tech, it’s just with more budget constraint

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961103187/surveillance-and-lo... Etc