Download or read book Above the Law written by Skolnick Fyfe and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1994-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.