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
access department driven fault hates lead lies open paying police press price smaller
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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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.
bum
As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
simpson understanding
The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
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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.
evidence people
You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it.
corruption fishes
It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head
hippie forever servant
Civil servants take forever to do anything.
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.
years trials lawyer
I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.
believe jury
I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.
years six done
I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.
giving research fiction-and-nonfiction
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
book writing nonfiction
Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.