Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force

Author/Contributor(s):	Fyfe, Skolnick
Publisher:	Free Press
Date:	2/7/1994
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.