Journalist Martin Weill offers this Tuesday evening on TMC an investigation entitled "What is the police doing?"

He explores the difficulties of the police in the face of the growing mistrust of which they are the object, but also the violence of which they are the authors, by giving the floor both to the police and to the French.

Guest of "Culture Médias", he explains how he conducted his investigation.

INTERVIEW

"The police are people we talk about a lot, but we hear little."

This is how journalist Martin Weill explains to Philippe Vandel's microphone how he chose the subject of his investigation "What is the police doing?", Broadcast this Tuesday evening on TMC.

The former specialist of the United States of 

Quotidien 

tells in 

Culture Médias

 how he worked on the ill-being and the police violence, by giving a voice to all those concerned, from the recruits of the police academy to the inhabitants of the working-class neighborhoods in trouble. 

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Speaking to the police 

Martin Weill therefore worked by following the daily life of the police.

He is investigating in particular at the Reims police school, where two young future policewomen explain to him that they are looking for "adrenaline and confrontation".

"The whole role of the instructors is to curb this desire for adrenaline in order to teach them the codes that they will have to exercise later", explains the journalist.

"The question is to know what remains of the theoretical training, rather short, in the face of the reality on the ground. 

His investigation also shows the distress of a profession applauded in 2015 during the attacks, and which does not understand that it is being criticized today.

And in particular among a brigade from Roubaix.

"A policeman on duty explains to me that he advises the young people around him not to join the police," reveals the journalist.

"What emerges from the shooting in Roubaix is ​​a form of weariness, of 'What's the point of doing that?'."

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"Misunderstanding and mistrust" between young people and police

What does the police ? 

also gives a voice to the French, and in particular to the inhabitants of difficult working-class neighborhoods.

"We made contact with a young person, in this case a rapper," explains the journalist to explain how he worked on the spot.

"We explained what our project was, which we really wanted to hear from, if I may say so, the 'two sides'."

Martin Weill discusses with the young people of the city of Corbeil-Essonnes two central elements: drug trafficking and police violence. 

From this shoot, Martin Weill remembers "the incomprehension and the mistrust" shared between police officers and young people checked several times a day.

But also social misery.

"It is more difficult to get by in certain neighborhoods, it is not to be a political activist than to say that", recalls the journalist.

"A young man explains to us that he is absolutely not proud to be trafficking drugs, but that for him it is a way to be independent and to give money to his mother. Of course that is. calls out and poses the question of any repressive action to fight against drug trafficking in the neighborhoods. "

Insecurity, a feeling shared but contradicted by the figures

The survey broadcast on TMC also questions the reality of insecurity in France.

But in a rather rare way in the media, since it includes under this concept the feeling of fear of delinquency among the French, but also their fear of police violence, and the fear among the police of violence of the population to their against.

"Overall, the violence is rather stable," explains the journalist, relying on various surveys.

"What is increasing is the feeling of insecurity."

Martin Weill underlines that the increasing possibility of having images of violence, in particular thanks to mobile phones and social networks, gives this impression of increase.

"But it is also due to policies, which make insecurity an issue, an electoral tool," he adds.

Oil on an already burning fire, which Martin Weill tries to show without stoking it with his investigation broadcast Tuesday night on TMC.