Above the Law
Police and the Excessive Use of Force| By: | Skolnick Fyfe |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Print ISBN: | 9780029291535 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781439118641 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The now-famous videotape of the beating of Rodney King precipitated a national outcry against police violence. Skolnick and Fyfe, two of the nation's top experts on law enforcement, use the incident to introduce a revealing historical analysis of such violence and the extent of its survival in law enforcement today.