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
answer cops eyes less means morale pension police proactive worst
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.
simpson understanding
The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
bum
As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
screens percent written
Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.
dna understanding want
The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
book mean writing
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.
arson difficult evidence
The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
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.
book enjoy my-own
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
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.