Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“The people, they don't know what it takes sometimes to keep them safe and it's better that they don't.” — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Police work in major cities - and New York is no exception - has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
American cops didn't create that atmosphere, they're the ones though who have to live with it on a daily basis. These are… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Cops fall into two categories—grass eaters and meat eaters. The grass eaters are the small-timers—they take a cut from the car-towing companies,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy.… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
American cops are the ones who are in the emergency rooms. They're the ones who go to the morgues. They're the ones… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. — Don Winslow Copy Share
“We proclaimed the freedom of the individual, bought and drove millions of cars to prove it, built more roads for the cars to drive… — Don Winslow Copy Share
We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and… — Don Winslow Copy Share
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. — Don Winslow Copy Share
I used to joke that my next book would be about puppies that have lost a chew toy, and everywhere they went, people were… — Don Winslow Copy Share
Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers,… — Don Winslow Copy Share
Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult thing to… — Don Winslow Copy Share
I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my… — Don Winslow Copy Share
I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn...… — Don Winslow Copy Share
“Hell isn't having no choice. It's having to make a choice between horrific things.” — Don Winslow Copy Share
Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on… — Don Winslow Copy Share
I think people will be surprised at some of the things about the shootings by policemen of unarmed African-American men. But I also think… — Don Winslow Copy Share
“There are the gods of place and the gods of commerce, and if you have to bet who’s going to win out, put your… — Don Winslow Copy Share
