It absolutely is not. Police State does not refer to excessive policing. It means police enforcing political agenda. Frankly, the US has a disgusting excess of traffic fatalities and no Constitutional protections to driving. I think heavy-handed safety enforcement is entirely warranted.
I do agree with your point, but I wanted to mention that lately I have found that, in a philosophical way I guess, everything is political whether we want it to be or not. What's not an agenda to you, IS to someone else. Even if it's merely your inaction to do something, whether calculated or not.
Unfortunately this seems to be the cause of a lot of debates... just differences in opinion over terminology basically, but I think people all too often don't look at it that way.
