European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Profile Wambaugh sitting pretty and writing novels in Blue Wamba ugh sat it the bar of the big Hole in Frankfurt flexed i Arm poking holes in the air with a stiff Fin fir while repealing the leniency that could have made him a millionaire when he was still a cop. " what Are you doing Here harassing me when Here ate. Murderers rapists and other scum running around out there free Man if 1 had a dime for every Lime i heard thai line on my Beal i could have gotten Rich he said. He got Rich anyway by writing Best Sellers one evry to Mon let since leaving the police Force in 1 974, the present ally it nine with number 10 just about to hit the Maziel now of i were alone with the Guy i d say listen you exp toll delete do you think that my Powers of imagination Are so limited that i could t tank of r belief to a Jhanb Here with you a two. Hal in Wogl and thai would shut up most a Wambaugh said resuming loss Beer. The big City cop beat is hell   he Twa the it Yeti of los Angeles the Pittsburgh boy fresh out of the marines which he joined when he was 17, went to College but walled something l l Sony action besides i saw the land Sale Cheri. Wece earning i do hts handpicked of several degrees a cop you get off. Won team that Yon it Eye know what la run  of Nan to the cops you can t n t mid so you of police  brutality have corrupt society you let cow ref the a by tribal behalf out. If your. Cop will Odb Riv Oral not web ugh or , but he thou grit  t w4 � of. T lived Tever m a eve moved Money yeah women cops rank High to Wambaugh s estimation they can do the Job just As Well As a Man because the work is mental and not physical. I know there s still a lot of discrimination women cops have to put up with All Over the country because some people confuse being a cop with the fire department. A Firman May need the strength to carry a body Down a ladder but not a cop. A cop has to use his brains out on the Street not muscle. On the cent Hwy. If you have a real big bad ass but there a linebacker Type hell probably cause some trouble and gel Hurt i mean realty  Wambaugh wrote his first Book the Pew  while on leave from being a copy it look off As they say in die Book Trade about Best Sellers. To had been writing Short stories about cops ail along but with Little Success. I was t looking for Money i just wanted to see my name published somewhere. 1 Send them out Tchah the cheap " magazines i found in the writers guide and got rejections i men sent the stories to higher Chasn \ magazines and even sent the tame Story twice to  wrote me something like Lisle it Schmuck what makes you think this Story is better the second time around later when they wanted to commission me to write a Story i wished had kept that refection  but Wambaugh finally struck it big Welthan editor. Not just any Etc Tutor but one of America s Grah Dow editors the at artak Magazine Edward week who Fame and Fortune \ t it % vye Eja Oewy published any Sto Rietl wrote Btu face kept encouraging me to write for two Yean it waste Bon nested j a Baughs a subset be4toallitlcand Learned  from the writer that App ared thete., it was weeks who said i i Story and write a Book. I old that was in 1971. When it a accepted himself came to  Hou Inwall firm to present me with a How  nervous my wife and i were f ii never Thad paper napkins and that " gentleman was eating and Napkin a the Lime lie finished it was shreds from Bhambh and  television made a Man belief our of his and he wrote the script for tie parti. That Wai a big make t a Nide a Rodt of  l As far As to cop series much Aphis tie of ties Wambaugh to sad he s newer Bif Tei Able to Kyat cd to the end. The a saw in we. Awful Uff i Sejor of nothing  but when i be i "  to i and on i