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No, policemen were not danger lovers, they were seekers of the awesome, the incredible, even the unspeakable in human experience. Never mind whether they could interpret, never mind if it was potentia...

Joseph Wambaugh

No, policemen were not danger lovers, they were seekers of the awesome, the incredible, even the unspeakable in human experience. Never mind whether they could interpret, never mind if it was potentia...

Was always taught that the man is the master of the house and you just accept what he wants.

Joseph Wambaugh

Was always taught that the man is the master of the house and you just accept what he wants.

About Author
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is a best-selling American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He won three Edgar Awards, and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.

Seemed constant, even as to old opinions. Shelly now held a master’s degree from Notre

Joseph Wambaugh

Seemed constant, even as to old opinions. Shelly now held a master’s degree from Notre

You listen to me, Treadwell. You’re an office pogue. You never been anything but an office pogue. You don’t have the slightest idea what goes on in a working police division. But you keep your mouth s...

Joseph Wambaugh

You listen to me, Treadwell. You’re an office pogue. You never been anything but an office pogue. You don’t have the slightest idea what goes on in a working police division. But you keep your mouth s...

You have to experience it, in order to speak about it with authority. Joseph Wambaugh says it with an air of that same authenticity, in his stories of contemporary Police activities, and, with a disar...

Joseph Wambaugh

You have to experience it, in order to speak about it with authority. Joseph Wambaugh says it with an air of that same authenticity, in his stories of contemporary Police activities, and, with a disar...

When Vince was through talking that day, one of the grand jurors said, Explain to me, to all of us, why in the world didn’t you at some time go to Mrs. Reinert and warn her? And by now Vince knew he’d...

Joseph Wambaugh

When Vince was through talking that day, one of the grand jurors said, Explain to me, to all of us, why in the world didn’t you at some time go to Mrs. Reinert and warn her? And by now Vince knew he’d...

Sometimes the boy wished they could sit and that words would flow. But when they sat, eyes would turn shyly away. Father and son usually fell silent. It was ancient inherited shame of fathers and sons...

Joseph Wambaugh

Sometimes the boy wished they could sit and that words would flow. But when they sat, eyes would turn shyly away. Father and son usually fell silent. It was ancient inherited shame of fathers and sons...

Of course, the happy shutterbug couldn't have known that his picture of a dildo keel would soon inspire a plot leading to murder and ensnare human beings like dolphins in a gill net. For he was just a...

Joseph Wambaugh

Of course, the happy shutterbug couldn't have known that his picture of a dildo keel would soon inspire a plot leading to murder and ensnare human beings like dolphins in a gill net. For he was just a...

Tags: human nature, murder, sea

Nothing could be more fearful than losing one's freedom. To be confined. Never to see a golden cloudburst or rivers of sunlight on dark flowers. never to walk your own cultivated furrows. And the memo...

Joseph Wambaugh

Nothing could be more fearful than losing one's freedom. To be confined. Never to see a golden cloudburst or rivers of sunlight on dark flowers. never to walk your own cultivated furrows. And the memo...

And as Harold Bloomguard gulped nervously all three young men nodded at Scuz. And another thing, I’m sorry I gotta give you some a the shitty jobs but we get a vice complaint we gotta investigate it....

Joseph Wambaugh

And as Harold Bloomguard gulped nervously all three young men nodded at Scuz. And another thing, I’m sorry I gotta give you some a the shitty jobs but we get a vice complaint we gotta investigate it....

Lawrence of Arabia said old and wise means tired and disappointed. He didn’t live long enough to know how right he was.

Joseph Wambaugh

Lawrence of Arabia said old and wise means tired and disappointed. He didn’t live long enough to know how right he was.

I mean that a battered child has a marvelous capacity to adjust to his torture and will ceaselessly love his battering parents. I mean that the mother of a sexually molested child will not leave nor t...

Joseph Wambaugh

I mean that a battered child has a marvelous capacity to adjust to his torture and will ceaselessly love his battering parents. I mean that the mother of a sexually molested child will not leave nor t...

He felt that the job was not particularly hazardous physically but was incredibly hazardous emotionally and too often led to divorce, alcoholism, and suicide. No, policemen were not danger lovers, the...

Joseph Wambaugh

He felt that the job was not particularly hazardous physically but was incredibly hazardous emotionally and too often led to divorce, alcoholism, and suicide. No, policemen were not danger lovers, the...

Hareem was speaking with the

Joseph Wambaugh

Hareem was speaking with the

Flotsam said, He thinks I shouldn’t do surfboard self-defense on four squids that flip us off and stole my juices when I was rippin’. They thought it was cooleo till one of them caught my log upside h...

Joseph Wambaugh

Flotsam said, He thinks I shouldn’t do surfboard self-defense on four squids that flip us off and stole my juices when I was rippin’. They thought it was cooleo till one of them caught my log upside h...

But Team Policing and the Basic Car Plan had created lots and lots of new jobs for officers of staff rank. Therefore lieutenants made captain, captains made commander and commanders made deputy chief,...

Joseph Wambaugh

But Team Policing and the Basic Car Plan had created lots and lots of new jobs for officers of staff rank. Therefore lieutenants made captain, captains made commander and commanders made deputy chief,...

Burglars and thieves sometimes complained that they only committed crimes against property, not like muggers and rapists. Muggers and rapists never faulted policemen at all, which caused the choirboys...

Joseph Wambaugh

Burglars and thieves sometimes complained that they only committed crimes against property, not like muggers and rapists. Muggers and rapists never faulted policemen at all, which caused the choirboys...

Bill Bradfield gave Jack Holtz the stare, but Jack Holtz stared back and said, That bullshit only works on intelligent people.

Joseph Wambaugh

Bill Bradfield gave Jack Holtz the stare, but Jack Holtz stared back and said, That bullshit only works on intelligent people.