50 Quotes by Joseph Wambaugh

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.

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.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

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

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

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.