Totalitarian police arrive after the military has pacified territory

Evidence

Like the secret police of the Soviet Union, the SS formations usually arrived after the military forces had pacified the conquered territory and had dealt with outright political opposition. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 944

Categorization

• XREF: The sequencing of police-after-military is a mechanism that reappears in analyses of colonial policing in the Islamophobia literature.