I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.
We are not a paid bunch of bullies. Our job is to get the facts.
Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
To be a police officer in New York requires so much more than just we, as a citizen, need to walk around. Your job is to put yourself in this place where a horrible event has happened and try to figure it out. That's what you do, day in and day out. You have to have a certain distance to it. You can't let yourself go too far into it.
I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.
Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.
At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.
I was a policeman for 18 years.
Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
I really enjoy the darker side of things. It's the type of work that I like to watch. I know some actors feel fearful of how they'll be viewed. But invariably, I find dark material can be very, very rewarding to inhabit and investigate.
Well, I'm a former FBI agent.
Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.
The nice thing about my job is that it allows me to look deeper into issues and then tell stories with that information.
The FBI is a field-based law enforcement organization, and the vast majority of our investigations should continue to be worked by our field offices.
Enacting the role of an investigative officer was like living my childhood dream!
Our work in investigating the Oklahoma City bombing reflected some of the very best the FBI has to offer.
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.
To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.
We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.
In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.
I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. I didn't want to tell people what to do.
My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator.
I despise research. I think it's a crutch.
One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
