Which will we run out of first? Stories about historical police failures/corruption, or audiences with whom such stories will still resonate now that we have moved so far beyond such horrors that they are almost unfathomable?
It’s a trick question, of course! The answer is – neither! With every new day’s headlines, a time when police haplessness (at best) and venality (at worst) will become lost to the past rather than desperately resonant with the present seems a greater impossibility. Steeltown Murders, based on real life events investigated dangerously poorly in the 1970s by various factions of the South Wales police force, feels as relevant as ever, as we wade through the latest reports of derelictions of duty by the Met and their regional brethren.
