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Above the Law Police and the Excessive Use of Force (2nd Edition) by Jerome H. Skolnick, James J. Fyfe, Skolnick Fyfe Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-02-929153-4 / 0029291534 ISBN-13: 978-0-02-929153-5 / 9780029291535 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 e |