Majority of Likely Voters Fear America is Becoming a Police State, Poll Indicates

A Rasmussen Reports survey shows half of respondents believe the FBI is a threat to law-abiding citizens.

Members of a Federal Bureau of Investigation SWAT team are seen as they walk to enter a mall during an FBI field training exercise at the Landmark Mall May 2, 2014 in Alexandria, Virginia. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

More than 70 percent of American voters worry that the United States is becoming a police state marked by government tyranny with “mass surveillance, censorship, ideological indoctrination, and targeting of political opponents,” a national poll suggests.

A Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey found that 72 percent of likely voters are “concerned” that America is becoming a police state, including 46 percent who are “very concerned.”