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
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The scandal, I can tell you for sure, is much smaller than the press would lead you to believe, ... It's driven by the L.A. Times, which hates the administration of the LAPD and has for many years. Part of the fault of that lies with LAPD, for not cozying up to the Times when it should have. I think a police department must give access to the press, and be open with the press, and the LAPD was not for many years, and they're paying the price for it now.
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The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
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As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
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I would say morale is already crippled, ... And that means you will have less proactive police work. You'll have cops out there who'll say, 'just keep your eyes down, answer your calls, get your pension and retire,' and that's the worst thing that could happen.
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There was a lot going on in LA with the Rodney King riots. I was living in San Diego at that time. It didn't get much coverage there.
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Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.
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The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
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I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.
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I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
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Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.
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The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
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The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
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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.
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The time has come for professional jurors.