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
fire people components
What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
emotional people manipulation
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
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.
book enjoy my-own
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
practice two fields
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
jurors
The time has come for professional jurors.
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.
real onions fields
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
arson difficult evidence
The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
today example lawyer
Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.
wall rivers people
What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.
people interviews accused
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.
passionate policemen wet
I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
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.