Police Brutality Most of us have seen the videotape of police officers savagely beating Rodney King. But how typical was this behavior? The Rodney King incident is not representative of most police officers around the country. Television shows, newscasts, and written media exacerbate the problem when they do not focus on the criminal as the root of the problem. "[C]urrent images of the police are drawn largely from television programs bearing little resemblance to …showed first 75 words of 825 total…

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