Mark Walport Quotes

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed the crime.

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

I don't necessarily have friends who are forensic scientists, but I have tons of friends who are cops.

Our Constitution does not require that all crimes be solved.

As a young prosecutor, I used the Bureau of Criminal Investigation extensively. I saw that there were problems with BCI. Frankly, I thought I could fix them. I thought if I was successful, I could really make a difference as attorney general.

No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.

I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.

I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.

True-crime shows and podcasts aren't the only ones flattening the complexity of forensic science into easy-to-grasp narratives: journalists do so, too. They say DNA or trace evidence 'matches' a suspect, when scientists can't be so definitive.

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.

I think there are lots of those moments when we meet people - listeners at a meet-and-greet - and they tell us that they've changed their major to forensic science, or criminal justice, or they've become a victim's advocate.

Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

[Julian Albert] is a CSI investigator; a forensic expert with similar skills to Barry, which gives them a different relationship to, I think, anyone else that he works with, because they're sort of treading on each other's toes in their field of expertise.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.

I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!