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. Joseph Wambaugh Read Quote
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn’t be a cop anymore. Joseph Wambaugh Read Quote
The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up. Joseph Wambaugh Read Quote
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. Joseph Wambaugh Read Quote
Today, lawyers are attacking more; they’re attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case. Joseph Wambaugh Read Quote
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. Joseph Wambaugh Read Quote
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional. Joseph Wambaugh Read Quote
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. Joseph Wambaugh Read Quote
