Quotes about detectives (16 Quotes)


    I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.


    Detectives were aware of a quite horrific child abuse case and when they arrived at the house, they obviously found signs of this abuse that had been going on. They immediately separated the girl from the two people she was living with.

    We've hired an outside firm to do all our tech support. They are going to put a filter in so no one can visit illegal Web sites. That was at the advice of detectives.

    The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.



    I was never a bookworm. I remember reading Dr. Seuss, the Hardy Boys, Emil and the Detectives, Chip Hilton, and lots of Mark Twain and Dickens. My athletic ability did nothing but invite taunts. I was an indifferent student and an athlete with delusions of adequacy, dreams of adulation.

    The doctors advised the detectives that this injury is not consistent with just a fall in the bathtub. That it was direct, blunt force trauma to the abdomen that actually caused his injury and ultimately death.

    You know Lori, there's some questions the detectives just can't answer, that only the sheriff can address. We have called repeatedly and have asked for a return call to maybe schedule a meeting and unfortunately, we haven't gotten one.

    It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

    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.


    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.

    Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.





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