Making News of Police Violence
Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Toronto and New York City
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: August 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780275968250
Subjects: Police & security services; Political control & freedoms; Violence in society; Law Enforcement; Violence (Sociological Aspects); Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Canada; New York; Ontario; Criminology; General; Journalism; Social Science / Criminology; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Case studies; Police brutality; Police in mass media; Public opinion
First sentence: On May 15, 1979, Rodney Edward Turner, a relatively unknown white drug dealer, accused Metropolitan Toronto Police Force detectives of torturing him by placing a vise grip on his testicles.