Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force

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.

• | Author: Skolnick Fyfe
• | Publisher: Free Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 07, 1994
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0029291534
• | ISBN-13: 9780029291535