Robert Mueller Quotes

They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.

The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.

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.

You don't present a show like 'Crimewatch' without developing a real respect for the justice system in this country.

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.

'Law & Order' has the same plot every single episode.

The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in.

I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.

I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.

When I started writing, most of the police department in New York City, especially above the rank of detective, were Irish, Irish-American. I thought it would be more interesting... to use the actual ethnic background in New York City at the time.

Police and prosecutors and the courts have got to talk together.

I watch a lot of true crime on TV.

I joke that, 'Give us forty-two minutes, and we'll get your bad guy for you.'

I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.

The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed.

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic 'true crime' fashion, my latest one is titled 'Anything to Be Together.'

In the United States, authorities are supposed to investigate crimes and find the people who have committed them.

We're in no way crime journalists or professionals really.

Years ago, when my attempts at a writing career came to a complete stand-still, I applied to the Los Angeles Police Department. This might seem odd for a liberal woman who once went to UC Santa Cruz, but I've always had a powerful fascination with crime and serious interest in finding different ways to contend with it.

I've always wanted to play a police officer or a detective, because I think if I wasn't an actress that is what I would want to do.

I want to be the Tough Justice Secretary.