Police terror takes away peoples freedom and there privacy, such as monitoring telephone lines, reading their mail, and implanting informers everywhere. They also used tanks and armored cars to stop riots from happening. The job of the police is to protect the citizens from crimal activity and not be criminals themselves. Police terror is to control the minds of the people so that they are under control and that they are forced to belive whatever the government wants them to believe. Police terror uses violence so that people will not disagree with the government. It was used by Adolf Hitler to control the citizens of Gernmany and kill millions of jewish people. Stalin used police terror in Russia and 20 million people were killed. In a democratic society police terror can not exist because a decomcracy is about freedom to protest and freedom to disagree with the government, so in order to have police terror citizens are going to rise up and revolt and there will be a revolution within the country. If people revolt in a country it destorys the country. The NKVD which were the secret police would brake down prisoners from the Gulag by intense interrogation and this included threats to arrest and execute members of the prisoner's family if they did not confess. The interrogation went on for several days until the prisoner would get so exhausted that they would sign a conffession agreeing that they had been attempting to overthrow the government. The end result of these two leaders using the secret police was that they were both killed and taken out of power. They went down in history as two terrible leaders of their country even though they minipulated their people but when they got caught they rose up against both of them. They are used as examples on what not to do to lead a country. If you are going to use police terror there is only so long that the people will rise up and go against it, knowing that they have rights too. The police terror in both of these countrys created an enormous underground movement that resisted and faught against the government.