Cop : A Journalist Infiltrates the Police

Gendrot, Valentin

ISBN 10: 1913348881 / ISBN 13: 9781913348885

Published by Scribe Publications, 2021

About this Item

Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cop : A Journalist Infiltrates the Police
• Publisher: Scribe Publications
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913348881
• ISBN 13: 9781913348885
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 2 pounds

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Synopsis

Police 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.

Well, not always. Not this time.

What 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.

Within 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.

Assigned 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.


Asking important questions about who holds institutional power and how we can hold them to account, Cop is a gripping exposé of a world never before seen by outsiders.