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• Crime Scene Cleanup Cronyism - A government weapon of mass deception.

Coping With Violent Death - Protect Relationships - Practical Steps to Grieving

Crime Scene Cleanup Odor Reduction

 

What I do for my crime scene cleanup services.

Crime Scene Cleanup

Crime scene cleanup stories and information found here include homicide stories, suicide stories, unattended death stories, and others. All have something to say about biohazard cleanup. What makes this crime scene cleanup web site so different from others, including mine, are pages dedicated to practical, hands-on activities designed to sooth our criminality in relations to nature and life. See my newest page, Automotive Electrical Diagnostics. I foresee a time when crime scene cleanup technicians will also serve as their own vehicle technician. In fact, I suspect that most people will grow to understand their electrical vehicles very well. I say this because such vehicles should perform with less complexity and greater ease of maintenance.

 

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If the gentle reader has any more interest in these subjects, visit my "How Crime Scene Cleanup Works" web site.

Orange County Suicide Cleanup web site now serves those in Orange County as New York Crime Scene Cleanup serves those in New York

 

 

Crime Scene Cleanup Ethics and Morality

Writing Exercises

Usa a dictionary for defining words.

Crony writing lesson for students

I recommend this writing exercise for students interested in knowing how to edit their own work. Copy this exercise and keep it. You will want to share it with others.

I color coded this writing exercise for transitions, parallelism, and active sentences. It will serve as a model paragraph for future reference. I recommend that you take it seriously for writing and you will be glad that you have done so.

Active words (blue) - Transition Words between paragraphs (red) - Parallelism (green - parallelism means running together, like train tracks) - Active and Transitions - - Some words serve two or more jobs in sentences and paragraphs. These have two colors.

Eddie Evans 

Cleaning Professionals Against Cronyism (CPAC) seeks to end cronyism between local governments and crime scene cleanup companies. CPAC shares this information for the benefit of independent crime scene cleanup companies and the general public's awareness. Read on to learn more about your future without us.

You know now why you must join with us or ignore us. Join us and belong to the solution. Ignore us and your silence equals complicity with cronyism.

Do you have the crony option? Some of your competitors receive the crony option. As a result these crony companies receive the more lucrative jobs from county employee referrals. As a result, the public gets ripped-off.

Unlike your crony competitors, you have competition and must work hard for referrals. You do not bid on high paying jobs. You have few if any opportunities to bid on high paying jobs. If you receive crime scene cleanup jobs, you drive far. You clean apartment death scenes and other free enterprise death scenes, each one a single death scene, usually. You receive hundreds of dollars in return, or a small fraction of what your crony crime scene cleanup competitors receive. Your local government ignores your pleas for equity.  

Unlike you, your crony competitors do not compete for high paying jobs. These they receive from crony government employees. Your crony competitors work nearby home. Your crony competitors' rip-off their grieving clients (tax payers) for tens-of-thousands of dollars. Your local government looks the other way while some of its employees receive kickbacks.

Your clients receive service from a competitive company that owes its life to its clients. You will clean your best while knowing your next job may not come for a long time.

Your crony competitors belong to a quasi-monopoly and have no fear of losing jobs for poor cleaning. Their business receives guaranteed jobs from their local government. Your local government and their local government prefers silence for the sake of public ignorance.

 

Crime Scene Cleanup Model Paragraph

Bloody Marry - How do I know what to write about?

Most students know how to write a crime scene cleanup paragraph in their beginning 4th grade class. Some do not. Some students do not begin writing crime scene cleanup paragraphs until after their college years.

What this crime scene cleanup paragraph does.

Students of crime scene cleanup need to write clear paragraphs with a beginning, middle, and ending. If this sounds familiar, like writing crime scene cleanup stories, it should. Both stories and paragraphs usually have a beginning, middle and ending.

Crime scene cleanup paragraphs build the crime scene cleanup story. Some students learn to think of their paragraphs in terms of length. Their public school teachers said, “A paragraph in this classroom has five sentences.” This instruction made sense for then, but times change. A crime scene cleanup paragraph sticks its words together. This means a paragraph's words belong to one another and nothing else.

Example:

Bloody Marry Cutting Tool

We see from the above paragraph that its words stick together. This paragraph's subject, the bloody marry, zeros in on the bloody marry while using the words crime scene cleanup, cutting tools, blades, and more. These words serve the bloody marry idea by expanding on it. Note the use of yellow coding. This code shows connecting words between sentences.

How do I know what to write about?

I used the bloody marry example because the bloody marry cuts so well and remains easily found at the Home Depot for a good price. I recommend buying 1,000 blades, which cost less than $15 a package.

Your choice of paragraph subjects comes from real world experience and reading. Reading remains the key for learning new ideas to write about.

Read this paragraph about cutting safety and the bloody marry. Note the connecting words between sentences.

Following cleaning for toddlers, the crime scene cleanup technician's safety follows in importance. By thoroughly scrubbing and rinsing repeatedly, highlighting areas before and after cleaning with hydrogen peroxide, the crime scene cleanup technician shows her affirmative attitude. The apparent significance of the crime scene cleanup technician's safety proceeds all actions, and the toddlers' hygienic safety comes first.

The toddler paragraph connects the hygienic safety for toddlers and safety. Note the yellow code words connect sentences for sentence sense. By making sure each sentence connects to those around it, the writer avoids aimless confusion. More importantly, by connecting sentences with these connecting words, the writer finds a way to create the following sentences.

Writing fluency with a knack for sentence building leads to coherent, focused paragraphs.

Crime Scene Cleanup sentences for students.

Sentence Sense

Rewrite below sentences using different approaches. See examples

Suicide is the third leading cause of death in the United States among persons under the age of 24. (18 words, 19 if we count "24")

Number 1 above shares the same or similar means as our first suicide sentence. It's shorter, too.

Number 2 above would do, except it begins with a number, which some readers object to. I 'don't know why.

Number 3 above will not do. It's too long. Plus, some writers claim that the word "to" as above after object is a preposition. So, because of rule I do not understand and never will, it's not OK to end a sentence with a preposition like to, from, or into. There's plenty of bad examples here, I suppose.

 

Murder

Our United States would hold "murder capital of the world," but for bloody insurrections on the African continent and other places. It's the guns, primarily that places our United States at risk for becoming murder capital of the world for all time. So, I wonder what might writing makes sense to explain murder as we find it.

Here's a few examples of what I call "murder." Later in this piece I make not of the more formal aspects of murder, and related how different types of murder have entered my homicide cleanup business.

On or about 20 February 2011, a Garden, California man died of a gunshot wound to his head, and it wasn't an accident. Like many shooting in the Los Angeles County area, this victim sat innocently in a car when the shooter simply walked up to the rider's window and shot this man in the head. His friends tried to save him, but their efforts were in vain. Paramedics declared this victim "dead" on their arrival.

We find no more of an explanation for this murder than as described above. It will qualify as an unlawful premeditated killing of another. In fact, lying in wait, ambush, comes to mind when thinking beyond this scene to its perpetrator's previous thoughts and conduct.

While handguns, rifles, and shotguns take their toll, I would miss hands-on murder, which by-passes all alienating distortions created by firearms. As of February 18 of this same year, in Washing State, Gary Ridgway faces life in prison for the strangling rampage ending in at least 38 lives. As serial killers go, he's got the crown for premeditated, first degree murder. Only recently was he charged with the death of another missing teenager from the Seattle area. Her skull turned up, and Ridgway confessed to this murder victim's murder. Rebecca Marrero died at his hands in 1982.

Ridgway's murderous rampage lead prosecutors to plea guilty to future murder cases as they arise with indications he played a part in these deaths. On February 18, when Ridgway appears in court again, the Marrero family has a right and opportunity to confront this murderous fiend.

So I would be wrong to blame gun owners for murders, I believe, because murder occurs by other means than firearms. It's that firearms make killing people so much easier. There' no touch involved, little risk of injury during a victim's struggle for life, as in strangulation, and the murder's killing act can be carried out at a great distance from a victim. This type of act I call an "alienated act," because a simple pull of a trigger from a distance destroys a life, and the killer has little input into the actual taking of another's life. Whether a murder or suicide, self-murder, firearm's create an alienated form of causing death.

Gunshots to the head also lead to instant death, but not always. I learned through many suicide cleanup jobs that some self-inflicted wounds become a portal for a total bleedout. This means that rather than become an entry point for a life-shattering bullet wound, a bullet hole becomes like an open valve for blood's escape from the body. So instead of a bullet entering a suicide victim's brain and causing instant death, a victim remains alive while their heart pumps out their body's blood. I assume as much when I find a gunshot suicide victim's blood trails from room to room. On the few occasions I've found this to be true, suicides began in the bathroom and ended in the bedroom on or near a bed, or vice versa.

Whether or not a suicide victim remains conscious or unconscious does not always become apparent during suicide cleanup. I have performed several suicide cleanup jobs where it became clear that the victim survived his head injury and either walked or crawled before dying from his gunshot would or bleeding to death. It's the same outcome in either case, but in the suicide victim's final moments of life, consciousness from a head wound caused by gunshot may create unbearable pain.

During suicide cleanup this type of death, a bleedout, causes problems when cleanup occurs hours later. Because the heart pumps out most of a victim's blood, there's enough blood mass to flow across non-porous floors, like vinyl floor covering and natural stone, Add a floor with less than a perfect plane, and now blood floors to walls, cracks between floors and walls, to and below toilets, and elsewhere. In a bathroom, blood may flow below a toilet. Given time and mass, it may find an avenue to follow as it flows to adjoining rooms or below when on a second or higher floor.

Because most suicides occur as unattended deaths, the following unattended death cleanup requires chasing blood to and through walls and other rooms under the worse condition. Of course death odors become quite strong and nauseating for those living near by.

All this dying at one's own hands and the hands of another leaves families and friends in emotional and psychological crisis. Bereavement follows and for some it's complicated. Complicated grief may take as long as 18 months before it begins to subside. In these cases there's more than the loss of a loved one's presence and relationship lost.

Friends and family may be of help, but eventually their emotional toll hits its own bottom Also, a form of disenfranchised grief may follow. This may occur when cultural norms cause an abandonment of the griever. Some forms of death cannot find an open form of expression or acknowledgement. Even public mourning become taboo because of the nature of a death. Where others might genuinely care to give their emotional and other support, the griever must continue to grieve in private with a sense of shame and abandonment created by social injunctions related to the decedent's cause of death.

Kids involved in violent gangs become targets for assassination as a form of "payback." Upon their demise, it becomes difficult for family members to openly grieve for their lost one. "He got what he was looking for" often comes to neighbors' lips, we might imagine. There's an empathic failure among family, peers, and neighbors for a once known personality. A victim's antisocial life invokes ascriptions of blame and feelings of anger toward a victim. We see this so often in Los Angeles County.

We have no guidelines for grief after a violent death, except for soldiers killed in battle, which becomes a matter of following our military's standard operating procedures. Nonetheless, in cases of suicide, which anyone with experience dealing with coping families victimized by suicide, those parent who lost their offspring to suicide, a social ineptitude springs forth. There are few way of acknowledge behave encapsulated in the role of a family survivor of a suicide victims. "What can I say" and "What can I do" become common comments.

Survivors do not attribute their experience to social ineptitude or indifference. They may also have plenty of social support, even from county support systems. What we have are situations without adequately defined social role patterns of behavior.

Plus, stigma often becomes associated with certain types of homicide, suicide, and unattended deaths. Meaning reconstruction takes time and there are few if any examples for survivors to follow. A death by horrific means by another's actions or by self-inflicted trauma carry social taboos unlike any other form of human behavior. Where suicide has official church condemnation, for example, family members and friends are at a loss when it comes to understanding and forgiving. Shame and guilt also play a part as social disenfranchisement alienates family victims from the community. By far, family members of suicide victims suffer the greatest sense of social isolation and stigmatization. All family members may share a sense of guilt. Children easily blame something they've done. For them, there's little else they can do to explain why their family member ended life on purpose.

Here's an example of one such case from long ago, as reported by the Chicago Herald Examiner, Nov. 25, 1939 (from Man Against Himself, Karl Menninger 289)

CHILD LAUGHS: DAD OF 11 KILLS SELF

J. G., 52 of ____, Near ____. shot and killed himself yesterday after a series of petty annoyances. He had a job as a stationary engineer, and earned a fair living for himself and family of eleven children. Yesterday was his day off and he was busy making minor repairs about the house. On a trip for plumbing materials he damaged his car slightly -- and then found the suppplies defective. One of the children laughed and this seemded to irritate him.

We're not told how Mr. J. G. ended his life, but we can make an educated guess. We would also error by believing he ended his life based on the facts as presented above. It may be true that these odd little annoyances triggered a suicidal act. It may also be true that much more serious issues were at hand then as reported. Financial woes, possible employment probems arising from antagonists in the work place, illness, or a pre-planned exit from years ago played some part. It comes to this, there's no way of telling exactly why anyone commit suicide.

There's more than one tragedy in this story, though, as there are second tragities in so many suicides. The child thatw laughed mostly like blamed himself and may have caught the blame of his siblings. Worse, their father's suicide became a model for eleven children. The odds are five times greater that a child of a suicide victim will commit suicide. Suicide has more than one tragic act in its story, most usually. Seldom can we follow such stories with any deliberateness. How could we, anyway?

Coping With Violent Death

Those in a state of grief find solatude beneficial at times. They find that too much attention and caring from frineds, family, caregivers, clergy, social workers, physicians, and loved ones raise too many issues. Skilled and unskilled social attention givers cause some to revisit unwanted thoughts and emotions. Imagine someone saying something like, "Well, at least you have one child left." Although made in ernest goodfaith, statements like this lead to unwanted ideas potential for greater loss. None of which helps overcome the months of mourning that must follow.

There's never an end to crises in our lives. Coping skill gained early on come to help later on, and for those around us, too. We see child and parent separated by an institution like school for a child's first day. Separation anxiety follows and both parents and child enter their own type of loss.

Skills learned during life's crises help us to manage life's burdens and become part of our means of copying with on-going, emotional challanges. These skills help us manage better when a loved one dies. We continue and we remember both good and bad times. We have lost a relationship besides a spouse, child, or parent. In the first weeks and months, our minds' return to patterns of thinking and acting created over over long periods of close and meaningful interaction. So of course we return to these thoughs and behaviors during our ensuing days. We find with pain there's no longer a relationship, only a memory of once gave pain or pleasure, or anxiety or assurance.

Protect Relationships

It's important to protect our existing relationships following the violent death of a loved one or close friend. It's not the same for everyone when mourning take place. If we sense something amiss in other's caring and sympathy, it's OK. Everyone has their own means of coping with grief.

Laughing out loud, telling jokes in obviously insensitibe tones comes to some people out of an anxiety for death; for death has struck too close to their own existence, their being in the world. Now they're acting out deeply held anxiety and this anxiety gets acted out in unusual, and even in a disruptive manner. It takes time. Before long relationships begin to settle down. Friends and family find their way make to more "normal," untested relationships. So keep your friends in spite of what may seem like crude, rude, and insensitive remarks and behavior. They scared as well as crying within.

Denial may strike some relations early on. For these relationships there's not much to be done besides letting each one follow their own emotional path to coping with life's greatest threat. If mourning continues well beyond 18 months, or if mourning obviously leads to real or imagined physical illness, then care for complex morning may require professional help.

Time does not heal. Feelings are not bad. Emotions cannot be blamed. Feeling hate and an urge for revenge do no good for anyone. Never allow a generalized sense of hate for people of various backgrounds to interfer with your good judgement. It's OK to hate while mourning, as long as this hate gives way to understanding and solice. Coping with, dealing with the pain of another's death has no end. Grief does not go away. We learn to live with it by managing it. Slowly our grief takes it place in our unconsiousness, subconsciousness, deep memory, or whatever else we've chosen to call it. For certain, we cannot continue to live in a modern society while acting out grief for the rest of our lives. "Life goes on" has an obvious truth to it.

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Brief Biography

63, VN Veteran (airborne infantry), 23 years US Army (3 active, 20 reserve/guard); married 42 years; AA, BA, MS; 10 years classroom teacher (high school English); 9 years biohazard cleanup. Orange County Probation Department 6 years; Orange County Marshal's Department 6 years; first Orange County Senior Court Service Officer.

 

 

 

 

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Murder: From our Old English morthor. We clearly see and hear murder's Germanic origin. For that matter, we find in in Sanskrit's mard "death" and Latin mors; by Middle English we find its usage from Old French as murdre. (return)