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What to Expect
from A Crime Scene Cleaner
West Virginia crime scene cleaner should arrive on
time. Most usually, a crime scene cleaner will not know that his or
her employer received your business through a county employee. Your
crime scene cleaner will clean without being encumbered by ethical
questions. A thorough cleanup of blood and other potentially
infectious materials will occur. Most crime scene cleaners know how
crime scene cleanup
means detail cleaning as well as demolition at times.
Crime scene cleaners often remove blood and other
potentially infectious materials from homicides, suicides, and
unattended deaths. Usually one or two victims of violent crimes
leave behind more than enough work for one crime scene cleaners.
Times change, though, and West Virginia crime scene cleaners begin finding
multiple crime scene
victims. This last weekend (today's September 8, 2011), four
people were shot to death in Nevada City, Nevada. A restaurant,
three victims and all military, died from AK-47 rounds. Another
person died outside of this "IHOP" restaurant. A similar shooting
occurred years ago in San Diego, California.
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Now we
approach September 11, 2011. Ten years ago we witnessed the largest
crime scene
cleanup in our nation's history. It happened on that day my wife
called me at work. A TV came on and I watched the wonder of
television broadcast terrorism across our continent. A TV receiver a
few feet from me and my clients forever etched the sudden demolition
of the Twin Towers, cultural icons.
Over a thousand victims died that day in and around
New York's Twin Towers. Crime scene cleanup would take years. Even
today, first responders continue dying from lung diseases and other
conditions caused from that day's environmental contamination.
Hazardous material cleanup at the Twin Towers dwarfed anything like
it in our history, short of Pearl Harbor. Decomposition
cleanup continued for many months.
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Following the San Diego crime scene cleanup,
newspapers questioned the manner of this shooting. "How did the
shooter get hold of a gun?", many wrote. Years passed and it seemed
that each new year brought a new twist on this type of mass killing
with firearms. Newspapers came to turn simple homicides into media
events like they turn celebrities into super-beings.
But has crime scene cleanup, the work of crime scene
cleaners, changed all that much from centuries before. And what of
today? What might we expect in a truly uncertain future as the
promise of endless crime scene cleanup emerges?
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Ideology
An ideology consists of a system of
beliefs. An ideology stands on its own in witness to social,
cultural, and historical changes as it moves forward. An ideology
moves forward embedded in its human convoy as humanity chooses one
ideology from others. Which ideology chosen typically reflects one's
social, cultural, and historical settings, their conditions of
existence. For crime scene cleaners, ideology involves some sort of
a religious upbringing. A crime scene cleaner may choose not to have
religious leanings, but just the same, a crime scene cleaner carries
an ideological predisposition to act.
How does this translate politically,
considering that the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers comes under
a political umbrella?
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It translates like this. The Coch
brothers, two billionaires born into billions, held a seminar for
billionaires as they build a war chest. A "war chest," yes. Because,
in their ideology, something that resembles Ann Rynd's
"Objectivism," in part, our President Obama resemble Sad dam Hussain
place in the world.
David Coke introduced Governor Chris
Cristi to the billionaire audience. Might we imagine Chris Christi
received sizable contributions from this billionaire crowd. "He is
my kind of guy," David Coke said. Christi was not quick to make his
relationship to this billionaire crowd known.
David Coke said, "Only a few weeks ago
that New Jersey would be freed from the Greenhouse emissions" rules,
to paraphrase. (Brad's Blog) We might guess that the Coke industries
has heavy investment in chemicals and oil. Clean energy has much
less consideration in their scheme of things, their ideology. Of
course, Medicare has no place in their ideological bent. I'm writing
about crime scene cleanup, the type that killed and kills many first
responders to the Twin Towers that terrible day. Ten years back I
had no idea a crowd of billionaires planed the demise of government
"entitlements" for working people. Oil, not people or the
environment, tweaks this movement for no billionaires left
behind.
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Crime Scene
Cleaners
When it comes to crime scene
cleaners, an overused metaphor goes something like this:
Crime scene cleaners of the world, unite.
You have nothing but your chains to lose.
In the context of what passes for civil
society these days, West Virginia crime scene cleaners at least have a job, at
times. At times they're on-call 24/7/365. At times they have too
little work and earn too little money. Considering the type of work
that they do, they should earn much more. A more decent arrangement
for crime scene cleaners arises when they own their own crime scene
cleanup company. This way they receive a larger share of the
profits. After all, they're the ones that make it all happen.
Crime scene cleanup works best for crime
scene cleaners works best. A small business model arrangement leaves the
non-working owner out of the picture. Keep in mind that this type of work should pay
an extraordinary amount of money for crime scene cleanup, but it
does not. I'm alluding to the fact that it's not fare to do this
work for less than $100 per hour.
But a cleaner cannot earn $100 per hour
unless they own their own crime scene cleanup company. Finding homicide cleanup, suicide cleanup, and unattended death
cleanup work takes a direct connection county cronies. Or, it
takes many dozens of crime scene
cleanup web sites. it's that simple.
Cronyism
One cannot compete with the county
government monopolies. Their employees' control over crime scene
cleanup grows absolute. In Orange County, California, their control
shows a determination similar to a parent's protection of their
children. Competing with such determination cannot go on for most
crime scene cleaners.
Like this writer, hundreds of web sites
ranking well bring too few opportunities to clean. It's government
fraud that brings crime scene clangers into a world not of their
making. Had they a free and level playing field, absent tax payer
supported civil servants, then they would arise in droves like
carpet cleaners. They would own their own Orange County crime scene
cleanup company; their equipment would belong to them and their
families, just like their profits. Then their labor in horrific
working condition would earn a more fair wage.
It's that simple. Our government creates
either a communist-like or fascist-like working world as found in
the words of my crime scene
cleanup business.
What can be done?
As one of two Orange County
crime scene cleaners working free of local government, I see a
solution. Simply, in all places accessible to the public, post
informational signs like the following:
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Notice
County employees do not refer to private
companies. Please do not ask.
County Board of Supervisors
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A similar message would do well on county documents.
Soon, affordable
death cleanup will have similar ideas. Some ideas may develop on
its pages, too.
Message for Cleaners
19th
Century -
Crime scene cleanup work exposes cleaners
to a special group of people, bereaved families. Every family has
its differences. Every family has similarities. In our business,
it's best to have some sort of idea have different individuals
respond to crime scene violence. Crime scene cleaners may at times
take some the "heat" as family members emote.
Keep in mind that it's not you. It's
their shock and grief talking. Say as little as possible on the job,
but do act if a sounding board should an individual wish to discuss
violent death, crime scene cleanup, your crime scene cleanup company
policies, and so forth. Do not involve yourself in religious or
philosophical discussions.
Below I have written extensively on
personality types. These serve as models for human behavior. They
explain nothing. The do bring to mind the many types of
characteristics we find in our own lives. We find these types among
our clientele as well. I hope that these models in some way breach
that chasm between client and crime scene cleaner.
Character Types
A person, which now includes
corporations, may want you to do something wrong. Don't.
A person may set out to correct your
beliefs. Ignore them.
A person may wish you to experience
emotions more or less intense than theirs. Say something like,
"These feelings are what they are. They are the real me." No one can
condemn another person for their feelings.
A person may wish wish for you to change
you into a copy their their ideal self. Go about your business
because this person will never reach satisfaction in others.
Diversity means differences.
Honor diversity in others rather than seeking out their seeming
flaws and afflictions. Some people may be sick.
Here's an example of what could and did
happen to a new crime scene cleaner. Assigned a small decomposition
job in an apartment, this young cleaner could easily have completed
his work with 2 hours. Decontaminating, scrubbing, rinsing, and
vacuuming the fluid for sanitary sewer disposal defined the scope of
this job. Simple assignment, easily and safely performed tasks
within healthy person's ability.
What happened turned out as a very
expensive job for the crime scene cleanup business owner.
The apartment building's owner arrived in
time to badger this young cleaner. Rather than allowing work to
proceed as a cleanup, the owner turned it into a major demolition.
Before he was done abusing this young cleaner, the cleaner had
removed the entire kitchen floor.
What happened? Our crime scene cleaner
lost his scope of work. His self-esteem came under attack and he
succumbed to a sick person's manipulations. "Sick" is the correct
word, too. Human mental health problems, sickness, psychopathology,
begins with the sick person manipulating others. In the end, a
distortion of the real person emerges as the manipulater tries to
transform othres.
20th Century
We find this manipulative behavior at
work in murder-suicide
cleanup work. It turns out that the perpetrators had a long
history of manipulation. Those around them seldom met their
expectations. In the end, murder victims were not malleable enouth
for the perpetrator. Historically, physicians and philosopers
explaed this behavior as an "internal" crazyness.
Then in the 20th century, the new modern
age brought Western Civilization to the forefront of modern
psychology. Now, instead of blaiming an internal sickness, demons
and such, and external cause came into our way of thinking.
The Russian scientist and experiment,
Ivan Pavlov, showed how important environment becomes in behavior.
The American scientist and experimenter, John Watson, then that
conditioning made humanity what it becomes. Watson claimed that he
could "shape" an infant into an adult as he wished, given the time
and conditions. So here we reach an extreme understanding of human
behavior from what came before. For a crime scene cleaner this may
not seem like much. Place these ideas into a mental sticking place,
and they begin to help us understand what may happen when people do
crazy stuff.
At about the same time that all of this
took place, we began to believe that people have more similarities
than differences. We began to belive that people have a single
motivation. Once known, we would understand human behavior.
Another approach quite different from the
above approaches arose, but it originated thousands of years before
Hippocratese, the great Greek physican. Carl Jung said that what
matters most in human temperment arises from instint-like behavior.
He called these "introversion" and "extroversion." To these he included four,
super-structure type, psychological functions:
- thinking
- feeling
- sensation
- intuition
Each of these types becomes a preference for each
human being. To place a lable on all of this, he used terms like
"psychological types" to help us understand these very deep
types.
Others had written similiar ideas. The ancient
Chinese book, Secret of The Golden Flower, has a theme similar to
what Jung called "architypes." In that great book we find mandals
representing different human and universal characteristics. Later
writers, including John Steward Mill and Henry Murry would write
their own take on these architypal ideas.
Mill's worked out an "ethology" approach while Murry
worked out a "personology" approach. These books would remain on
library shelves for generations. The "paradigm shifts" of 20th
century psychology had turned attention to Pavlov, Watson, and
others, including Freud and his followers. Something had happened
with these new approaches. They showed, or at least claimed, that
human beings can change and do change. They showed that
environmental conditions do have an influence over our behavior.
Meanwhile, the internal schools of psychological
thought, like Jung's archetypal psychology, held the notion that
internal structures do influence our overall behavior. This idea
follows in a more discrete and specialized way.
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