Joseph Wambaugh

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

#book #come #dna #ever #had

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#never #percent #probably #screen #things

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#dna #evidence #had #simpson #understanding

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#cop #field #i #knew #made

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

#close #cop #department #field #got

The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#arsonist #because #burned #difficult #evidence

The time has come for professional jurors. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#jurors #professional #time

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#case #everything #example #good #good example

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. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#back #down #hollywood #hollywood people #i

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#component #fire #people #wondered #written