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Maybe, but there are at least places where law is virtually non-existent, those places work on the power of customs and traditions not on terror. Not saying that I prefer unwritten laws, that seems too complicated to be realistically used by a large enough society. Also, I personally don't equate police not held accountable and terror.
If you "don't equate police not held accountable and terror", you're white AF.
Law and law enforcement are two entirely different things.
Could you elaborate on the first item?
The way I see it terror is always directed towards/against something. It's not just the atrocities committed by someone it's mainly instigation of fear to blackmail people to act according to someone's will.
Uncomtrolled police force leads to it becoming the organized crime itself, to corruption, to overuse of power, and other bad things, but it doesn't seem to be directed in itself. So this may be an instrument of terror but it doesn't necessarily imply the terror itself is what I was trying to say.
Terror is not only an active verb. The more insidious and pervasive representation of this is systemic, violent racism by authority figures and the historical lack of justice against said bigotry.
In practice, police forces are organized crime with a badge. In theory, and I mean in the most fairy tale way possible, they're shining paladins of virtue. If you're still gargling that Kool-Aid, no one can help you, but if you want to put down the pitcher, just say the word.