LAPD Quotes

My wife is a former homicide detective, LAPD. The wonderful thing that I was able to capture is my wife's experiences from human and professional, and how do you deal with some of the atrocities that happen in L.A. and not bring them home.

Yeah, I was a brother on the streets of Compton doing a lot of things most people look down on but it did pay off. Then we started rapping about real stuff that shook up the LAPD and the FBI. But we got our message across big time, and everyone in America started paying attention to the boys in the hood.

I know that on LAPD they have used psychics. They used it on the Hillside strangler case. I'm not sure on the Richard Ramirez case. I can't say one thing or another about it. I've read about it. I really don't have a lot to say about if it works or if it doesn't.

How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up.

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.

My father was a police officer in Los Angeles.

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

Never in the history of 'The Shield' was the word 'LAPD' ever mentioned. We would mention districts, like Wilshire and Hollenbeck and Marina, but Farmington was a fictitious district, and we never actually uttered the word 'LAPD.' So that was sort of the deal we made with them.

I love 'Training Day' - that's a great movie.

I think it's pretty apparent who my favorites are because I keep coming back to them. At the top of that list would be Harry Bosch, who's now going on 20 years of literary life. I still like him the best because there's still a lot to say about him.

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

I didn't take my vows to the LAPD.

I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.

I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.

The LAPD, like most police departments, is a male-dominated bureaucracy. A woman faces a lot of pushback.

I didn't watch a lot of cop shows growing up, but I am a huge fan of 'Southland' now.

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

After the Simpson trial, after all the bad things Cochran was claiming, I became the most investigated officer in the history of the LAPD.

When Joseph Wambaugh writes about the LAPD, you listen because you know he knows the scene. Lots of people write cop novels, but they don't have that authenticity.

John Wells and Christopher Chulack were pretty honest from the get-go in our first meeting about 'Southland.' They were looking to create characters that were believable in the environment of the LAPD - multi-dimensional, layered characters with real flaws; good-hearted cops mixed with the perfect amount of heroism and irony.