Bénédicte Desforges is a former police lieutenant who worked both in the suburbs and in Paris, in an anti-crime unit she left in 2011. Her books, Flic, chroniques de la police ordinaire (2007) and Police mon amour (2011), tell some of the stories from her time with the police. She also advocates in favor of decriminalization of drug use on her blog, in articles she writes and in an open letter to the members of Parliament written in June 2018. She’s also one of the founders of Police contre la prohibition (PCP), a collective created in 2018.
