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We're currently working on Inspector Gadget's book, Perverting The Course Of Justice.
He picks up where Copperfield and Bloggs started and continues our exposure of the lunacy of modern policing.
Writing from a slightly more senior perspective than the two PCs, he understands - though doesn't agree with - the ethos behind a lot of the nonsense that besets the British criminal justice system.
His blog, like those of Copperfield, Bloggs and other officers, has been talking, from the inside, for a long time, about scandals like the manipulation of crime figures, the pursuit of detection targets to the exclusion of common sense and even reason, the horrifyingly low numbers of actual uniformed response cops covering our major towns, the almost complete uselessness of PCSOs, the nonsense of neighbourhood policing and the plummeting morale among those rough men (and women) who stand ready to do violence on our behalf as we lie peaceably in our beds at night.
The response from much of the mainstream media to all of this is mystifying; the mental state of Britney Spears or the peachiness of Kylie Minogue's bottom are investigated with more vigour than the collapse of law and order on our streets.
A commenter on the current Coppersblog thread asks why it is that the stories which fill the blogs don't appear (much) in the newspapers and on the airwaves.
Partly, I think, it's because some journalists distrust the police; others (particularly those in charge of setting the agenda) are comfortable enough that crime doesn't bother them too much, or young enough that they accept it as part of their lives. Maybe a few are politically motivated, happy to regurgitate government statistics. Some are definitely lazy, so they don't bother to check the statistics, or incompetent, so they can't.
There are lots of honourable exceptions to these generalities, of course; the Daily Mail serialised Wasting Police Time over three days, Nick Cohen read and liked it, others too.
But I remember sending out review copies of that book to the media when it was published. We weren't sure that The Guardian would be too interested (though in our opinion, crime is a left-wing issue as it disproportionately affects the poor) but we thought that the books editors of The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator might be. Not a sausage. Sam Leith (Telegraph) and Mark Amory (Spectator) were actually pretty dismissive; they didn't seem to feel it was the sort of thing that their readers might be interested in.
That book has now sold close to 60,000 copies, and eventually appeared in some way in most national newspapers. Copperfield was interviewed on Newsnight, and Panorama based a programme on him. We've sold the rights to it around the world. The point I'm making is that it was actually quite a revelatory book in its own way, albeit one produced by a very small publisher. Yet, early on at least, it was ignored.
We took a call yesterday from iPM - the online and Saturday afternoon version of the PM programme - wanting to talk to Gadget. That was an early indication of interest; maybe this time the media are more aware of and concerned about what's going on in policing?
Time will tell.