Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr.is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his first novels were set in Los Angeles, California, and its surroundings, and featured Los Angeles police officers as protagonists...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 January 1937
CountryUnited States of America
real onions fields
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
book writing dna
No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.
jurors
The time has come for professional jurors.
practice two fields
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
book enjoy my-own
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
police onions fields
The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.
emotional people manipulation
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
fire people components
What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
book writing nonfiction
Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
giving research fiction-and-nonfiction
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
years six done
I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.
home years fire
If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.
hippie forever servant
Civil servants take forever to do anything.
corruption fishes
It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head