Hitchens on American Cops

Much the way George Orwell critiqued the British military (essentially a police force in its colonies, India notwithstanding), Christopher Hitchens critiques the American police, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

To quote Hitchens: It is the U.S. Constitution, and not some competitive agglomeration of communities or constituencies, that makes a citizen the sovereign of his own home and privacy. There is absolutely no legal requirement to be polite in the defense of this right. And such rights cannot be negotiated away over beer.