The chair of a civilian body overseeing police activity is smeared as a child-porn sympathizer - just when he's about to introduce changes that would make policing more transparent. An investigation clears him, but he's only one civilian target in a line-up of dozens. Policing the police is dangerous business. Hogtown: The Politics of Policing is an unblinking account of how political pressures influence the operations of the Toronto Police Services Board.