Police Brutality | Police Attitudes Contribute to Police Brutality

About the authors: Jerome H. Skolnick is a law professor at the University of California in Berkeley. James J. Fyfe is a professor of criminal justice at Temple University in Philadelphia and a former New York City police officer. They are the authors of Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force.

How can police, who can be exemplary heroes, beat people and then be prepared to lie about it?

Policing, because it is a 24-hour-a-day identity, generates powerfully distinctive ways of looking at the world, cognitive and behavioral responses that, when taken...

[The entire page is 1563 words long]

Join eNotes

The above is a free excerpt. Get total access to this content with the:

eNotes Pass