33 karma · joined April 13, 2020
I have read the book multiple times, and that line never fails to move me to tears, even when I know it is coming.
You quoted a marketing blurb. Of course it is supposed to sell the author.
Additionally, this statement does not depict what many (most?) people would consider an effective or competent police force: "she was not [Japanese], which meant that the police were... less incentivized to help her".
I am currently a foreigner living in a Scandinavian country, and I simply cannot imagine facing the same kind of discrimination from the police force (nor from other authorities) here. I think many (most?) people would agree that an effective/competent police force is not one which ends up driving foreigners out of the country by virtue of being unwilling to afford foreigners equality before the law.