Playboy Interview: Joseph Wambaugh

Playboy Interview: Joseph WambaughUntil Joe Wambnugh came along, American novelists traditionally treated police as either pigs or paladins but rarely as human beings. In 1971, Wambaugh, then a moonlighting member of the Los Angeles Police Department, made his literary debut with "The New Centurions," a highly charged novel based on his career as a cop, and since then, Americans' view of the police has never been quite the same. In subsequent best sellers--"The Blue Knight,"...