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Cara Black has studied Buddhism in India, taught English in Japan, and visits Paris at least twice a year with notebook in hand, to explore and to interview les flics about crime and procedure.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2022

Publishers are scouring the world for the next crime wave: a few summers hence we may all have forgotten about Oslo and Ystad, and be reading about les flics in Paris and Lyon instead.

From Economist • Aug. 30, 2012

There has, alas, been no word on whether a half-smoked Gauloise and small glass of Ricard were left at the scene to taunt les flics.

From The Guardian • May 20, 2010

Deneuve learned from the French flics how to shoot a revolver.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still, the French government suffered too, since the spectacle of demonstrators and flics fighting in the rain flashed across the newspaper pages and television screens of Europe and the rest of the world.

From Time Magazine Archive