Valentin Gendrot 
Cop 
a journalist infiltrates the police

The story of a French journalist who infiltrated the country’s police force, revealing a culture of racism and violence in which officers act with impunity.What happens behind the walls of a police station? In order to answer this question, undercover journalist Valentin Gendrot puts his life on hold for two years. He decides to undertake training and become a police officer. Several months later, Gendrot is working in a police station in one of the tough northern arrondissements of Paris, where relations between the law and locals are strained.Gendrot hides nothing. He witnesses police brutality, racism, blunders, and cover-ups. But he also sees the oppressive working conditions that officers endure, and mourns 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 expos of a world never before seen by outsiders.