| This Adelanto crime scene cleanup web site seeks to explain crime scene cleanup in broader terms than found elsewhere. As a crime scene cleanup web site, it seeks justice from perpetrators, crony free government, and a scientific approach to biohazard cleanup. Crime scene cleanup entails biohazard removal following homicides, suicides, unattended deaths, and other blood cleanup tasks. This web site also leads in the fight against local government corruption in death administration. Read about local government corruption in Orange County, California. See one partial solution to cronyism in local governments. |
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| Crime Scene Cleanup |
Crime scene cleanup work began with a sense of caution because blood exposure signaled deeply held cultural taboos. Watch commercial media and see vampires and bloody horror films exalted. Horror films also cast blood in demonic settings. Early crime scene cleanup technicians must have experienced grave anxiety. In fact, even today some newer crime scene cleanup technicians over exaggerate the biohazards. Yet, it's always better to error on the side of safety than to risk inoculating yourself. Viruses, bacteria, fungi, and toxins unfriendly to the human body play havoc once the crime scene cleanup technician accidentally inoculates himself. Today most crime scene cleanup technicians look for concrete meanings in biohazard cleanup work. Science tells us that microorganisms and other biologicals destroy life with less mass than we might have expected one hundred years ago. In fact, two hundred years ago we were still learning to wash our hands, a subject you know too well about. As important a role hand washing plays in disease control, there are many microorganisms out there passing through human and nonhuman populations by blood contamination and airborne contamination. If you care to learn more about some of the viruses we live with, and will sooner-or-later play host to, visit this VIRUS link. TOP Crime scene cleanup following a violent crime or violent suicide still raises some anxiety. True we have protective clothing and helpful information, viruses like HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C may contaminate a biohazard cleanup environment. Of course Hepatitis C tops the list of concerns because this tiny virus has a life expectancy of days in the wild, outside a controlled environment. What makes this survivor virus wicked includes damage to internal organs. It leads to a near or total bleedout at death. Because death usually follows its contamination and destruction of the body, Hepatitis C, with its long life expectancy in the wild, requires forethought and distance when cleaning. For those unfortunate infected few, healthy living, exercise, and other worthwhile hygiene habits help to slow Hepatitis C's destructive destiny, and little else works to stop it. HIV carries the second most concern for crime scene cleanup technicians. HIV contraction means bad news, but HIV infection need not always become lethal. Known as AIDS in its advanced stage of development. AIDS kills. HIV will respond to the miracle of chemistry in about 80% of the human population. Most reports of AIDS began to surface around 1981. Because of cultural taboos its place among known diseases took some years before people believed the truth of it. Even President Reagan at the time insisted that AIDS belonged solely to the homosexual population, and in a sense AIDS represented payback for lives gone wrong. The religious leaders of the southern states and elsewhere proclaimed AIDS represented signs of a sinful life and the devil took the hindmost. Today we accept AIDS as a terrible disease that kills many people from many different backgrounds. When it comes to crime scene cleanup of biohazards, we prepare well in advance to confront blood and bloodborne pathogens (blood carried germs) in the wild.
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Why do we have Crime Scene Cleaners?
In brief, other types of cleaning businesses do not approach cleaning like the crime scene cleanup companies approach their type of crime scene cleanup.
Looking to the history of crime scene cleanup, families and businesses experiencing a violent death from a crime or suicide would rather not clean after the traumatic death. Until recently, within the last 30 years, carpet cleaners and morticians filled this crime scene cleaning need for the few families with discretionary income.
Others began to specialize in this new "crime scene cleanup" industry because of its income potential. When congress passed its bloodborne pathogen legislation, it created an inevitable crime scene cleanup industry.
A sense of caution grew because blood exposure meant exposure to bloodborne pathogens like HIV. Long held cultural taboos also followed blood exposure to the crime scene cleanup technicians without formal biological training. These two elements of crime scene cleanup accounted for those early, extraordinary crime scene cleanup fees.
Early crime scene cleanup technicians must have experienced anxiety as a result. In fact, even today some newer crime scene cleanup technicians exaggerate the biohazards, which creates a problem for education around genuine concerns.
Keep in mind that bloodborne biohazards give way to frequent hand washing, but needle stick and other puncture wounds should give rise to caution. Inhaling dried, flaky blood also requires special caution when begriming a crime scene cleanup job. Because wet and moist blood present possible Hepatitis C infection and other illnesses, we consider wet and moist blood, as well as dried, flaky blood, among the biohazard waste materials.
So the risks of physical injury persist throughout crime scene cleanup as in any other field, but magnified by blood's dangers. The risk of physical injury during demolition work exist like in any construction trade, but for blood's dangers. As a biohazard cleanup of the environment often entails wearing protective clothing, a hallmark of biohazard cleanup.
Because death begins the decomposition process when the heart stops beating, contamination of the death scene with Hepatitis C, with its long life expectancy in the wild, requires forethought and distance when cleaning.
For those unfortunate infected few, healthy living, exercise, and other worthwhile hygiene habits help to slow Hepatitis C's destructive destiny, and little else works to stop it.
HIV carries the second most concern for crime scene cleanup technicians.
Known as AIDS in its advanced stage of development.
Today we accept AIDS as a terrible disease that kills many people from many different backgrounds.
When it comes to crime scene cleanup of biohazards, we prepare well in advance to confront blood and bloodborne pathogens (blood carried germs) in the wild.
Crime scene cleaners emerged because it is now easier to catch a disease from cleaning crime scenes.
Now, blood-borne pathogen's have become more dangerous and easier to contract.
So the business field known as Crime Scene Cleanup has grown to serve the needs of blood cleanup for residential, commercial, and industrial environments.
That is, women were 15 times more likely to contract HIV from sexual intercourse with a male than vice versa.
Health employees were the most obvious group of US workers at risk, but these rules are applied to most employees in the private sector.
Because of this, no one can clean a bloody environment or be involved with work involving possible exposure to blood or OPIM (Other Potentially Infectious Matter) without blood-borne pathogen training.
What is probably important for those interested in becoming a "Crime Scene Cleaner," to this writer's knowledge, is that there is no private "certification" needed to clean a bloody scene.
So if a school owner or a Crime Scene Cleanup business tells the reader that they must be "certified," the reader needs to ask, "Certified by whom?".
For crime scene cleanup, certification in bloodborne pathogen training is found quite cheaply and quickly through the American Red Cross.
Email to Orange County Sheriff:
Subject: Your deputies obstruct my business.
Dear Orange County Sheriff,
Consumers of after death cleaning services do not reach Orange County's Internet market.
I know this because I receive zero telephone calls from my Internet marketing service for after death cleaning service.
I offer more information to help you understand that some of your employees cheat the public by referring grieving families to my competitors or their own cleaning businesses.
More proof follows from my Internet marketing experience with other businesses I have owned. Each of these Internet domains generated recurring business telephone calls, which my wife will confirm: power washing, carpet cleaning, marble polishing and industrial floor machine and equipment sales (Cimex).
I believe these successful Internet marketing services in Orange County prove empirically that Orange County's consumers prefer the Internet to telephone books.
Still, I receive zero telephone calls to my above telephone number, which resides on dozens of Internet pages on Orange County Internet web sites. Please help the public by getting your deputies out of my business.
Motivation for Local Government Corruption
OSHA regulations inadvertently created conditions for local government corruption inadvertently. Because more stringent work standards in the work place became available, a dollar biohazard cleaning industry emerged. Because cornoner, medical examiner, and county administrator technicians handle county death administration, corruption became inevitable.
Prior to bloodborne pathogen legislation, little incentive existed for referring cleaning companies to crime and suicide family survivors. After the force of law became available, hundreds of millions of dollars entered the new cleaning industry.
As a result county employees now had access to an income worth ten times their civil servant income. Most important, the risk of exposure remained nearly non-existent.
Example of rewards versus risks:
| Activity | Reward | Risk | Outcome |
| Corrupt County Employees | High Reward | Low Risk | Civil Service Protection |
| Banking | High Reward | No Risk | To big to fail. |
| Foot Soldier | Low Reward | High Risk | Death/Injury |
| Stoop Labor | Low Reward | Low Risk |
Consumer Fraud of Victims by Their Government
I purposely repeat myself for clarification to explain how Orange County's government victimizes tax paying grievers.
A high Internet marketing footprint returns few or no local calls for cleaning service.
Corrupt county employees direct family victims to corrupt cleaning companies. As a result victims do not reach the Internet.
As a result survivors pay inflated cleaning prices to corrupt companies; corrupt county employees then receive kickbacks. County employees may own the cleaning company referred to. Corrupt employees and corrupt companies gouge insurance companies as well as family victims.
If those in need of an Orange County crime scene cleanup company made it to the Internet, they would find my business and others. They would pay less. But not so. This is consumer fraud.
How Our Local Government Commits Consumer Fraud
We need to ask the critical question about Orange County, "Why do the county's homicide, suicide, and unattended death" survivors not use the Internet to find professional crime scene cleanup help? They obviously do not.
Visit this page and its links and find out for yourself. Scroll down the page and pretend these web sites belong to many companies, not my company. We would think that grieviing families would find their way to one of these web sites, but not so.
Explanation
A high density population with Internet connections has a propensity to use the Internet for shopping, given the move from paper to Internet information. Without intervention between consumers and the Internet, a high population returns a proportional representation of relevant Internet related calls, we should expect. After all, we do not find crime scene cleanup companies in malls or on Main Street.
A low density population with poor Internet connections will return a low, proportional representation of relevant web site calls, we should expect. We expect a higher number of calls from urban areas than rural areas.
A high Yellow Page marketing share returns few or no local calls for cleaning service, my marketing experience revealed.
So where do consumers of crime scene cleaning find help in Orange County?
My Explanation
Multiple death scenes come with high price tags and crony employees reserve these for friends, crony companies, or their own company. Otherwise, I would receive offers to bid from property owners and victims.
Explanation One
A three-car garage often tips off coroner's employees that the death scene housed someone with homeowner's insurance. This property becomes a low risk, high profit referral or property to clean for insurance money and insurance fraud possibilities.
Explanation Two
When crony employees have face-to-face contact with the decedent's family members, the illicit information changes hands. The victim, family members of the decedent, have no idea other cleaning companies do the same work for less.
How many corrupt Orange County employees?
The number of crony employees working in any county government deparment must remain a fraction of the employee population. The more employees aware of cronyism, the greater the risk of exposure. The more employees connected to crony dealings, the less money for all.
However, it is the case that county employees will "circle the wagons" when an imagined threat from outside their cubicle circles threatens the status-quo.
Also, new employees are at risk of intimidation by cronies with seniority, rank, and privilege. Older employees go-along-to-get-along. Older crony employees become supervisor. Now employees with higher morals and higher ethics become a threat and at risk of reprisals.
Also, for those employees wishing to do the right thing, whistle blowing returns few rewards and much ridicule in some circumstances. I worked for Orange County for 11 years and I know about this particular feature of county employment all too well.
In Orange County whistle blowers become "rats" in the midst of those they expose because few employees receive termination notices. Small groups emerge with agenedas of their own, resulting in subtle power plays agains the unsuspecting new comers.
No risk attaches to cronyism in the coroner's office, the deputy coroner once advised me: "If you think someone would get fired over this you're wrong," or something to this effect.
Consequenced for Victimized Victims
At times I charge half and even a quarter as much as my competitors. This includes traveling far distances. The public loses again because of cronyism. Imagine paying five-thousand dollars to have a suicide cleanup up when another company would have done the same work for nine-hundred dollars.
God help the tax payers because the county will not.
Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you.
Eddie Evans, Crime Scene Cleanup
Homicide - Veteran Suicides Up
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Do not accept referrals to private companies from city or county employees. County Board of Supervisors |
How should I get rid of blood and OPIM? Read biohazard-cleanup.com. "No evidence indicates that bloodborne diseases have been transmitted from contact with raw or treated sewage. Many bloodborne pathogens, particularly bloodborne viruses, are not stable in the environment for long periods of time" |
Murder - Motives Friendly Fire
Cleaning after a violent homicide in a residential or business environment takes time. Different viewing perspectives give rise to possible trajectories created by high velocity impacts. Without taking time to check for potential unforeseen's, problems remain behind following crime scene cleanup.
Homicides I've cleaned usually resulted from criminal intent. A Los Angeles crime scene cleanup follows intentional homicides in most cases. Rarely were these accidental. Every now and then an accidental homicide comes to my way.
The last accidental homicide, they are all shootings, occurred in 2008, in northern California. Two young men were celebrating the 21st birthday of the older of the two. By the end of the party the youngest of the two, an 18 year-old, lost a large piece of his head from an "accidental" gunshot to the head. During their party the two shared cigarettes, 2 magnums of wine, a Remington 44 magnum handgun, and stupidity.
Both participants knew each other as best friends, having grown up together in the same apartment complex. Both were seated in an apartment living room adjoining a kitchen, and within a few feet of the apartment's one door. The victim sat with his back to the apartment's living room wall, a few feet from a picture window on his left. The door to his right, and the shooter a few feet from his face set the scene for homicide. Allegedly they were "only looking at the gun" when it "went off." The deceased never gave the gun a second glance. (See my comments below on combat deaths and friendly fire.)
Figuring out what went where as the crime scene exploded with bio-debris took a few moments. This job's primary debris trajectory resolved itself within 2 feet. It remained fairly localized as a result. Shotgun blasts under the chin from the center of a bedroom contaminate entire vaulted ceilings, walls, and the floor. I call these "360 top-to-bottom." There's only one way to view such a shotgun wound. That's a 360 degree perspective. Anything less does not constitute crime scene cleanup.
The birthday gun's damage spread covered less than 45 degrees my tests showed. I tested for more. It wasn't there. I would have a short day.
As an accidental homicide, this shooting probably went down quickly as a plea for an involuntary manslaughter charge without hard time (12 months county time, 3 off for good behavior). For my money I'd say the gun and alcohol combination brought this murder into the malice aforethought judicial ring. Nobody but a fool and an idiot touches a gun while drinking or after drinking alcohol.
As it turned out the local police cleaned a good piece of the crime scene in their forensics work. As small departments go, these cops had it together. They took about a quarter of the carpet and carpet padding and cut about a 3X3 piece of drywall as evidence. The coroner's technicians were super too. A little hair and some frags in the wall near the door remained from the anatomical side of it all. Maybe small town people just do good work.
The apartment's operations' manager came in as I worked. His job included moving out those who could no longer move out. As a kindly act I shared my mattress removal technique to help him out.
He told me the story. He said the shooter's father gave the gun to the shooter the night before the homicide as a birthday gift. It turns out the operations' manager had no love for guns and now the loss of these two young men convinced him not to love guns. "Do you have a gun," he asked.
"I hate the damn things."
I worked through the rest and gladly walked out into the winter air and down the stairs when done. "At least this one didn't have a ton of print dust to clean," I recall thinking to myself.
Cleaning this homicide left me unnerved. I kept thinking, "What a waste." I drove slowly through the snow-packed apartment parking lot. The rest of my day crept along with a dull feeling tugging away at my mind. I hated this feeling and knew I let this simple crime scene shake me. "It's as bad as cleaning after a 13 year-old's suicide," I realized.
It's been over a year now. Now that I'm thinking about this crime scene I wonder what became of the shooter and everyone in his social circle, his web-like network of young adult gun enthusiasts. Will the shooter return to the apartment complex or move to anonymity?
Friendly fire is a form of manslaughter, homicide. It does not qualify as murder.
To get a grasp of what happens in friendly fire accidents, one must understand the utter confusion and deafening noise experienced by today's combat soldiers. Not counting those killed by aircraft or artillery (a terribly high number for certain), friendly fire among infantry soldiers kills many soldiers.
Automatic weapons do not forgive the anxious and terror stricken soldier wielding an automatic burst before finding his target. Soldiers run into and across comrades' line-of-fire inadvertently. Hand grenades bounce off trees, vehicles, and walls and find the wrong victims.
Accidental discharges from foot soldiers' weapons occur frequently. It may be hard for civilians to picture the environments in which foot soldiers carry their heavy, deadly equipment. At times environments covered by eight foot elephant grass in Asia brings moving soldiers to a crawl. Weapons once placed on "full-auto" remain so when threats no longer exist. Pushing through elephant grass with a weapon on full-auto eventually leads to an accidental weapon discharge.
In Afghanistan's tribal warfare in boulder covered mountains pockmarked by caves, soldiers encounter steep climbs. The incidence of accidental weapon's discharge increases with the number of soldiers climbing, their duress, and their exhaustion.
Officers enforce fictional stories to hide friendly fire deaths. Army officers must keep their records spotless if they expect to move up the chain of command. A private accidentally shot in the back and killed by a communication's sergeant while on patrol "died in combat," KIA.
For every one hundred soldiers killed by enemy fire, the number killed by friendly fire is a large percentage of KIA's. (See glossary for more.) Ask an honest foot soldier and you'll find a similar opinion.
These are the sort of facts presidents need to consider before pressing the make-it-happen homicide button. (return)
Oakland Tribune Contra Costa Times (California)
By Harry Harris and Sean Maher
Oakland Tribune
CHP Officer possibly hit by friendly fire.
"OAKLAND, Calif. -- A California Highway Patrol officer shot Wednesday by an armed robber who was later killed by police may have been wounded by a fellow CHP officer, authorities said."
Suicide Rate for Veterans Jumps 26 Percent
In other military news, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said the suicide rate among eighteen- to twenty-nine-year-old men who have left the military rose 26 percent from 2005 to 2007. Shinseki said an average of eighteen veterans commit suicide each day. From Democracy Now
Suicide Rate for Veterans Jumps 26 Percent
In other military news, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said the suicide rate among eighteen- to twenty-nine-year-old men who have left the military rose 26 percent from 2005 to 2007. Shinseki said an average of eighteen veterans commit suicide each day. From Democracy Now