{"product_id":"cop-a-journalist-infiltrates-the-police-paperback","title":"Cop: A Journalist Infiltrates the Police - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eValentin Gendrot\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eFrank Wynne\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Paris police force as you've never seen it\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolice officers are obliged to give an account of every incident they are involved in. But what happened today will never be logged. Because that's what police solidarity means: what happens in the van stays in the van.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWell, not always. Not this time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat really happens behind the walls of a police station? To answer this question, investigative journalist Valentin Gendrot put his life on hold for two years and became the first journalist in history to infiltrate the police undetected.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWithin three months of training to become an officer, he was given a permit to carry a weapon in public. And although he lived in daily fear of being discovered, in his book Gendrot hides nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAssigned to work in a tough area of Paris where tensions between the law and locals ran high, Gendrot witnessed police brutality, racism, blunders, and cover-ups. But he also saw the oppressive working conditions that officers endured, and experienced the tragic suicide of a colleague.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAsking important questions about who holds institutional power and how we can hold them to account, \u003cem\u003eCop\u003c\/em\u003e is a gripping exposé of a world never before seen by outsiders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48757434056953,"sku":"9781922310774","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/i2bnM41bQz9781922310774.webp?v=1785946527","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/cop-a-journalist-infiltrates-the-police-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}