Quotes About Investigation

there's even a word—testilying—for the perjured testimony that an officer gives in court when he's covering up for his own or another officer's misconduct during an investigation.

Sectarianism •The trend defined by a complete refusal to conduct dialogue with other groups or work with them on small projects, following one's own line dogmatically without striving towards one's further education. •To refuse conducting work with other local groups on the grounds of high theoretical differences, to refuse further investigation and cling to superficial understandings, to become an in-group rather than a mass organization.

Oppose Contrarianism: Take up meaningful polemics against those with whom one disagrees; show, in practice, the efficacy of one's programs; show an openness towards other positions without compromising one's own; oppose other's positions only after a dedicated investigation into them.

Mike Cabral's task force came to believe that John Orr was responsible for the vast majority of all the arsons they were studying, and by way of unverifiable proof, they pointed to the astounding statistic that showed a 90 percent drop in brush-fire activity since his arrest. In the county foothill area, brush fires had averaged sixty-seven a year clear back to 1981. After his arrest the average had dropped to one per year.

It was best not to ask too many questions of the Ferrets and Weasels of this world. There was less to deny when the headhunters put you on a polygraph.

Digging deep into a situation before making a decision, will enable you to seek the proper truth, rather than what your told.

Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not usually suspected of murdering them." "You have been as long as I've known you.

Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.

It means I know you, Adrien with an e , and I know you get reckless when you're impatient. You're paying for this investigation, and I'll keep you apprised every step of the way, but if you even think about going rogue on this one, I'm turning in my fedora and you can hire some other dick." I don't want any other dick . I closed my mouth on that one—metaphorically speaking—and said, "I don't know why the hell everyone seems to think I'm so reckless—

Some guys say it with flowers," Tucker said. "I bring you arson reports.

You know, this won't be an easy thing, Adrien." An officer-involved shooting was not going to be fun, righteous or not. "The investigation you mean?" "No." He gave me that crooked smile. "No, I don't mean that.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

The San Francisco restaurant chosen for the FBI's first sting in the college admissions investigation that went by the name "Operation Sis-Boom-Bah" was renowned for its exceptional wines (including a 2001 Pomerol Bordeaux), and the fact that it had just netted Food & Wine's highest honor, its Grand Award.

You're sure he's not a cross-dresser?" Diana asked.

What were they wearing the last time you saw them?' Donna stared into the golden-flecked eyes of the moon-faced police lieutenant. He was a short man, intensely muscular

the most recent murder. Now she came up to me in first period to say I should sit with her at lunch. This was a definite step up from my old spot in the cafeteria. She wanted to know if my father had any new leads. "Even if it's top secret, none of us would breathe a word

THE NEXT DAY THEY FOUND the body of Charlene Gray lying in a thicket of young madrone just below the Steep Ravine Trail, near where it intersected with Little Salmon Creek.

killed before her, had been covered in tape, in the

creature with imprecise contours, a sort of deceitful, dishonest amoeba that can't be investigated, for, looking for it again under the microscope, we find that it's not there, and we suspect that it's gone, and we soon realize that it has changed shape and is now impossible to recognize.

In the meantime, before the civil authorities had been able to start an investigation [into the Mountain Meadows Massacre], the church conducted a private one, if we are to trust their own records. The leaders had to know the truth of this affair, even though the group loyalty which they had always encouraged would not permit them to make public their findings. Through long years they had developed the attitude that, right or wrong, they must stand together.

Florence Dodson was murdered the same night that Claire Guthrie shot her husband. For me, the story began with Claire, and I put Mrs. Dodson on the back burner in my mind. That turned out to be a mistake.

We got a lot of information from the detainees that eventually led us to bin Laden.

I don't edit information, I follow it.

I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what's around the corner.