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.

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

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

I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head

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.