About 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.
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
Joseph WambaughWhen I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
Joseph WambaughThe Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
Joseph WambaughI certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.
Joseph WambaughThe O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
Joseph WambaughThe serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
Joseph WambaughWhat is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
Joseph Wambaugh