Commenting on the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, Jerome Skolnick, and James Fyfe said that the attack was:

a. due to the inability of civilian review boards to control the police.
b. a result of attitudes learned by officers on the job.
c. unrepresentative of the Los Angeles police and unlikely to happen again.
d. part of a trend of increasing police brutality over the past fifty years.


Answer: b

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