The term "dodgy" is a British slang descriptor for something suspicious, unreliable, or of poor quality.
: The term is famously associated with freelance "stringers" or paparazzi who monitor police scanners to film grisly crime scenes for news stations. This is often satirized as a "darkly realistic" critique of modern media, where "if it bleeds, it leads".
Several factors have made night crawling more "dodgy" than ever before: