Police and the Excessive Use of Force
by
Skolnick Fyfe
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
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.