{"product_id":"cop-valentin-gendrot-9781922310774","title":"Cop: A Journalist Infiltrates the Police","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Valentin Gendrot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1922310778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781922310774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribe Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Valentin Gendrot","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48587943117055,"sku":"9781922310774","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1aa0b266-4b2c-4e14-8763-8807af77cc2b.jpg?v=1780171522","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cop-valentin-gendrot-9781922310774","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}