   
A critical reader reading this article will first ask, "How does this guy know anything about how crime scene cleanup works"? I know because I have cleaned crime scenes for over 7 years, which includes hundreds of death scenes that I cleaned alone. I know because I rarely clean in my own county (once in 14 months). I know because I have witnessed abuses and ignorance in the field a bunch of times. Unlike those snappy How Crime Scene Cleanup Works" online magazine articles, I know how crime scene cleanup works because I do it. I know how crime scene cleanup works as well, and probably better than anyone else in the universe. That's not brag, just fact. Place any reasonable person in my shoes and they too would know how crime scene cleanup works. I own over 1,000 web sites used to market my crime scene cleanup business. I know how crime scene cleanup works because I receive a large number of telephone calls from victims of crime scene cleanup companies, insurance companies, and others. I answer each telephone call personally, ninety-nine percent of the time. I never use an answering machine or answering service. People talk with me on an informal basis every day about crime scene cleanup. That's how I know about what follows inductively, deductively, intuitively, empirically, and rationally. (My name is Eddie Evans, I am 63 years old, have a military background and education background -- AA, BA, MS) First and foremost, the crime scene cleanup business exists as it does because of government legislation and insurance company homeowner's insurance. The government legislated to help protect labor from bloodborne pathogens. Without this legislation, crime scene cleanup would not exist, period. Without homeowner's insurance, crime scene cleanup would exist as an "add-on" to carpet cleaning and other small cleaning business activities. These two elements, government and insurance companies, create the conditions for how crime scene cleanup works today. (For more on the nature of crime scene cleanup, tap crime scene cleanup.) With that said and out of the way, my writing here arose from a number of articles about "How Crime Scene Clean-up Works" and mega-money for crime scene cleaners. These articles bring me to ask, "Whose side are you on?". None of the Internet's articles on crime scene cleanup approach the journalistic standards that previous generations of Americans came to expect. Put another way, articles on How Crime Scene Clean-up Works reflect a lack of research and critical thinking. It seems that their information sounds like the infomation-propaganda we've come to expect from the billionaire owned Fox "news industry." Imagine H. L. Mencken's critical thinking and and then think of today's wimpy net writers.I see what these writers have done, besides going-along-to-get along. They have generally performed their craft well enough, but why should anyone lift an eyebrow? Well, they do a fair amount of damage to ernest individuals, that's why. Consumers, employees, and hopeful job seekers fall victim to the Internet's crime scene cleanup propaganda. A close reading of these articles reflects a bias for their subject, rather than an objective "who, what, when, where, how" analysis approach to journalism. Where's the information that people in search of real information need? Perhaps a couple or more of these writers simply promote corporatism. Ideas like "safe," "shallow," "simple," "meaningless," " misleading," "white bread" and "Where's the meat?" strike the critical reader interested in the real story. Writers of these "gore" stories often pivot their themes on two extremes, money and gore. Readers of these stories might wonder how so many people missed out on the great opportunities to earn their fortune. What a wonderland of strife-free profits exist in the world of crime scene cleanup! The facts reflect that, in effect, the crime scene cleaner cleans for chump change, unless she or he owns the company and does the cleaning, like the carpet cleaning model we often find.
Weather small or large, what makes these companies "work" arises from legislation and insurance. They do not create wealth as we have come to understand the creation of wealth. As an "industry" capable of absorbing the hoards looking for work, the need for crime scene cleaners remains small and will continue so indefinitely. The facts reflect that many people come to believe what they read. They believe that $100 per hour follows shortly after getting "into the business" and "going to crime scene cleanup school." Many wasted thousands of dollars to attend a "crime scene cleanup school" because of what they read on the Internet. The Internet's crime scene cleanup propaganda machine continues to send more victims to these schools then we will ever know. They go on a promise, a dream, and hopes of being one of the few "able to withstand" the horror and stink of it all. More will read from the crime scene cleanup propaganda machine and waste their time and money. The reality of biohazards in crime scene cleanup simply do not exist in bloodborne pathogens as we read. Of course, Murphy's Law rules at all times, but the truth resides elsewhere. The probability of suffering bloodborne pathogen injuries on a crime scene cleanup pales when compared to the probability of suffering traffic related injuries on the way to a crime scene cleanup. If the biohazards of cleaning crime scenes justify tens of thousand of dollars for simple decomposition cleanups, how do we explain employees' relative low wages in such a dangerous occupation? How do we explain statistical tracking of bloodborne contracted diseases among medical personnel and not crime scene cleaners? Simple, there are no known reports available for crime scene cleaners contracting bloodborne pathogen diseases from crime scene cleanup. When the first such casualty appears, I'll be the first to publish its news if I can. Moving on, here's an utterly worthless statement deserving our critical attention:
We read, "a profitable industry of crime cleanup jobs" without as much as a blink. A profitable industry of crime scene cleanup jobs for whom? Who did this writer get to offer up their employment experience as a crime scene cleaner? Did "Crime scene cleaners" ever hope to earn $100 to $600" in a crime scene cleanup crony-filled nation? Can you see people lining up for crime scene cleanup school hoping to land one of these $100 per hour jobs? Go to Orange County Consumer Fraud or Orange County Fraud to learn about government corruption. You can't make $100 per hour in crime scene cleanup when your local coroner's employees have a monopoly over clients. Crime Scene Cleanup Commodified This is how crime scene cleanup really works. We see that death's honorific ending and the labor needed to clean after death become commodities (something to be bought and sold) in crime scene cleanup. So the crime scene cleaner's labor and the effects of death create work. Most important, an opportunity to buy and sell crime scene cleanup labor now exists like any other commodity. In Adam Smith's language, classical economic language, the employed crime scene cleaner (proletariat) sells her or his labor to the crime scene cleanup company (the bourgeoisie). The crime scene cleanup company crystallizes the cleaner's labor in the form of surplus value, profit. It's the same commodification of self by selling one's labor or buying the other's labor that defines capitalism. It's all the same no matter if a violent crime, violent suicide, or unattended death cleanup: buy cheap and sell dear. Buy labor cheap and sell it dear to someone else, like an insurance company, that is. The net effect of this relationship equals profits derived from the labor of crime scene cleaners less materials. What could be simpler? Economics of Crime Scene Cleanup As noted above, without the insurance "industry" the crime scene cleanup "industry" does not exist as we know it. Because survivor's have homeowner's insurance crime scene cleanup companies rely on survivors' insurance to make extraordinary profits, something we don't read about on the Internet in any detail. Without the insurance companies four major changes occur in crime scene cleanup:
Insurance companies create an artificial finance environment for large companies. Without this artificial environment, rates drop because the lofty insurance payments stop. Small companies also profit from the insurance companies, but their continued existence does not necessarily depend on insurance company money. Large companies must either disappear or absorb crime scene cleanup into other existing business activities. They must absorb their crime scene cleanup activities as a less demanding area of their enterprise. Crony companies cannot exist in an open and free business market as they do with their welfare-like government referrals. They either conform to market demands or cease to exist. Small companies flourish in an open and free market freed of a market artificially propped up by insurance claims. The mom-and-pop carpet cleaning companies and their like would find an open field of consumers in need of professional cleaners freed of corporate operating costs. Answering the question, "How crime scene cleanup works," leads to the greatest variable between large and small crime scene cleanup companies. Large companies should need less time to clean and a solo cleaner company more time. For consumers in need of a cleanup in a few hours. a larger company makes sense. For those consumers with a full day or two, a small company makes the most sense. Commercial and industrial consumers would benefit from the former, and residential consumers would benefit from the latter, to generalize. The bereaved contacts a company that is found in most cases on the Internet or by a crony county employee's referral to one or more crony companies (and the growth of cronyism continues rapidly). In some cases the crime scene cleanup company insists on a signed contract that includes a lien against the bereaved's property. At this point the homeowner jeopardizes the ownership of their property for the sake of an insurance claim. Some homeowner's carry policies that limit their insurance company's liability for coverage. Some policies require structural damage before invoking the required clause, which rewards cleaning companies for needless demolition. These home owning survivor's stand to loose a lot of money if their insurance fails. For those with personal property damage as well as structural damage protection, they represent a pot of gold to their cleaning company. Some companies take advantage of insurance company claims. A simple decomposition cleanup may run to about $20,000 and will include a dumpster for all of the belongings tossed from the home. In this writer's opinion there is no way that a cleanup for one death can possibly incur such fees. Why a Self-employed Crime Scene Cleanup Company Costs Less Solo cleaners cost less because they have fewer expenses. If a small and honest crime scene cleanup company does the work, the homeowner's invoice reflects something like this (with wide variations):
A solo cleaning company should complete a crime scene cleanup following a shotgun blast to a human skull for less than $4,800, a liberal figure. What I leave out of this figure are problems that arise from blood migration below floors, between rooms, and other conditions not fully apparent at first sight. Time wise, a cleanup of this magnitude calls for a two day cleanup by a solo cleaner. I would not be comfortable with a one day suicide cleanup of a shotgun blast to the head. Example: A carpet soaked in blood and water may cover a small hole in a wall. Through this hole water and blood slowly flow. The area behind the wall now becomes part of the death scene and part of the cleaning and recovery expense. TOP None of the above counts in crime scene cleanup cronyism and nepotism. The bereaved becomes another victim of the crime, but victimized by a different puke. Some pukes make a lot of money by no special skills or knowledge of their own, just knowing the right people. If crony's sound like the 18th century ruling class, they should. They profit by virtue of relationships. Their class privilege has nothing to do with skills, knowledge, and abilities. Counties cannot identify cronies easily. There are no blood tests for cronyism. Their are no accounting mechanism for cronyism. Cronyism operates by simple sentence interaction. Here's an example of what a county employee might say to the survivor of a homicide, suicide, or unattended death: We recommend XYZ at 123-456-7890. Sentences like the above cost survivors of crime scenes thousands of dollars they could have saved. These costs also include strong-arm sales tactics intended to deceive and manipulate the bereaved during some of the most painful, vulnerable moments of their lives. Is it any wonder that I use the term "puke" for these criminals? Cronyism's simplicity operates with near perfection. To overcome it, county administrator's need to disclose the whereabouts of all biohazard cleaning companies within an agreed upon area. This simple solution might occur by one or more of the following:
County officials have a duty to protect the public. They have a duty to ensure the public does not, cannot become victims of county employees privileged with special information, like recent deaths. This line of reasoning strikes me as so obvious I wonder why it has not already taken place nationwide. Surely intelligent adults working in coroner and medical examiner services should anticipate abuse of their privileged information. The incentives to sell information easily entice the less-than-ethical employees. A simple grudge held by one employee becomes rationale enough to abuse the system for personal gain. Imagine increasing one's income by half or doubling it by uttering a simple sentence on the telephone or face-to-face several times a week. We have bureaucracies to protect citizens in a democracy, to organize and streamline decision making by rules and guidelines; to ensure that we do not become victims at the hands of our civil servants. The intent for creating bureaucracies is to anticipate the public's civil and protection needs on a collective level. The American public needs protection from cronyism in crime scene cleanup. In this writing I took time out to explain cleaning company abuses of crime scene victims. I noted price gouging. If a county could save one crime scene victim from crony abuses then would it not make sense to institute policies to protect the public? A simple county administrator's resolution would protect the many from one or more cronies indefinitely. Why would any county administrator hesitate? (Comments like the above do not make it to the Internet's crime scene cleanup propaganda articles, we know.) One last example here: "They require a special permit or a practicing license that authorizes them to remove, pack and dispose off bio-hazardous waste." Now, I say, I missed out on this one. So where might I find such a required "special permit"? Finally, some article writers should have permits to post on the Internet. The so-called crime scene cleanup article writers do more damage to more consumers, cleaners, and job seekers than a host of Orks could do to Bamby. TOP Questions about Crime Scene Cleaners with answers.
What is a crime scene cleaner? 1. Specifically, a crime scene cleaner may earn a wage or income from cleaning after a violent crime scene. Generally, a crime scene cleaner cleans after death. Most of a crime scene cleaner's work follows unattended deaths and suicides. About ten-percent of a crime scene cleaner's work follows violent homicides. Crime scene cleaners are also known as Most probably the majority of crime scene cleaners also work as water damage technicians, carpet cleaners, and other service occupations. Many work part-time because death scene cleanup businesses have many competitors and too few cleaning opportunities.
I think a term like bloodborne pathogens would sicken a person new to the field of blood carried disease. It just happens that the term bloodborne pathogens became the stimulus for creating the field known as crime scene cleanup. Without the threat of terrible germs carried in blood, many crime scene cleaners would still drive tow-trucks, push carpet cleaning wands, or suck water from flooded buildings. Imagine county coroner and medical examiner employees without their kickbacks from crony crime scene cleanup companies! All of these occupations benefited from the Center for Disease Control and the Occupational Health and Administration’s infliction of the term bloodborne pathogens on America’s population. To make life a little easier, we will understand that bloodborne pathogens means germs in the human body. These germs cause vicious diseases in humans. Among the two most deadly we note HBV (Hepatitis B Virus) and HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), which get the most attention. If these diseases do not cause the reader to "just say no," then maybe these will help convince the sexually active to take up monogamy: Hepatitis C, Hepatitis D, and Syphilis follow those who say, "yes." Pretty scary terms, I'd say. All are also known as microorganisms because we cannot see them with only our eyes. We also know these microorganisms as viruses, which destroy human cells. Viruses exist and reproduce within human cells by breeding more viruses in cells, making them parasites. This means that viruses take from cells and do not give back. This sounds vaguely familiar in other respects, if you know what I mean, like Wimpy. (type Wimpy) TOP Viruses add special meaning to crime scene cleanup because they may be found in fluids containing human cells. Such cells may make their way to these fluids as part of the fluid or as a ride-along by way of a violent discharge of blood. Among these fluids we include synovial fluid, semen, vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal fluid and other fluids that mix or have a contact with a victim's blood. A human being's cells all contain strands of DNA and RNA, the building blocks of organic life, in general. Viruses, devious as they behave, contain either a strand of DNA or a strand of DNA, and never both. This design gives them opportunities to mutate quite quickly compared to other life forms, at least on our planet. Because human cells play host to viruses, our cells become "sick" from working all day and then dealing with these parasites. Now our cells go into overtime because they must use their energy to produce more viruses, which in turn insist on more virus production. Soon the human body's virus population begins to look like the growing population of a bunny farm, overwhelming! For a crime scene cleaner, Hepatitis B spreads worldwide at the rate of 50 million new cases diagnosed each year, which does not count the undiagnosed victims of this liver damaging bloodborne pathogen. Cirrhosis of the liver occurs, and crime scene cleaners know all too well about unattended deaths resulting from cirrhosis of the liver. (See cirrhosis of the liver and death cleanup.) For a crime scene cleaner, Hepatitis B's importance grows with the virus's life expectancy, 7 days outside the body on dry surfaces. If this doesn't slow cleaners down, then know that this bloodborne pathogen has 100 times more contagiousness than HIV. |
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