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Book · 1968 · Fiction

The Laughing Policeman

Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (Penguin Random House) · 211 pages
★ 4.9 editorial score

On a rainy Stockholm night a gunman empties a submachine gun into a bus, killing a detective from Martin Beck's own squad. Sjöwall and Wahlöö make Swedish social democracy the real suspect.

Genre
Detective fictionCrimePolice procedural
Medium
Novel
Subject
PoliceMurderSocial criticism
Setting
Stockholm
Time
1968Depicts 1960s

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Quote · 1962

“For the middle class, the police protect property, give directions, and help old ladies. For the urban poor, the police are those who arrest you. In almost any slum there is a vast conspiracy against the forces of law and order.”

Michael Harrington
Quote · 1998

“Team? Johnson, this is the LAPD. We're the most hated cops in all the free world. My own mama ashamed of me. She tell everybody I'm a drug dealer.”

Carter
Quote · 1982

“You know what I am? I'm your worst fuckin' nightmare, man. I'm a nigger with a badge which means I got permission to kick your fuckin' ass whenever I feel like it!”

Reggie Hammond
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