Officers stand in line as people marched from City Hall to the Federal Detention Center to protest ICE raids and unlawful detentions on Sept. 1, 2025, in Los Angeles. Photo: Ted Soqui/Sipa News Photo via AP Images

Ian F. Blair is a writer and editor in New York City.

The consolidation of the new police state has not been announced. There was no press conference declaring that local, state, and federal law enforcement — plus the military — are all marching to the same drum. No news conference featuring a bunch of police captains standing before a microphone to express their commitment to the new regime.

But it is here.

In the past six months, a quiet, mass reorganization of resources and rules and personnel has rippled across the country in order to enforce the Trump administration

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