Thought Police - Other Uses

Other Uses

In the first half of the twentieth century, prior to 1984, the Special Higher Police (Tokko) in Japan were sometimes known as the Thought Police.

The term "Thought Police," by extension, has come to refer to real or perceived enforcement of ideological correctness, or preemptive policing where a person is apprehended in anticipation of the possibility that they may commit a crime, in any modern or historical contexts.