Cop: Chronicles of Ordinary Police, Bénédicte Desforges

"I wrote about what moved me or made me laugh, what ravaged my conscience, the regrets of not having known how to do well, the relief of having done my job, images that are etched in my memory and will never leave it... I wrote what one hesitates to say. I wrote about the best choice I ever made in my life: that of being a cop. The duty of reserve? That's not the most important thing..." Bénédicte Desforges's Le Flic is an exceptional account. A uniformed police officer with a sharp pen, this young woman delivers a series of astonishing and moving chronicles about the daily lives of "rank-and-file cops," those we encounter every day. Her street stories, those of ordinary police work, offer us a rare and intense dive into one of the behind-the-scenes aspects of our society. Le Flic, a great real-life crime story, without cameras or jargon.