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Joseph Wambaugh [1937-0] American

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Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States.

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The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.		101
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.		102
I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.		103
As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.		104
Civil servants take forever to do anything.		105
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.		106
Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.		107
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.		108
Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.		109
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.		110
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.		111
I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.		112
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.		113
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.		114
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.		115
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.		116
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.		117
You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it.		118
The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.		119
The time has come for professional jurors.		120
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.		121
Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.		122
What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.		123

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