Valentin Gendrot: Cop: a journalist infiltrates the police [2021] paperback LBIOG Forty years later

Forty years later

Chicago Tribune

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At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War

Valentin Gendrot: Cop: a journalist infiltrates the police [2021] paperback LBIOG Forty years laterPolice 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