Reflections on arson cases

July 16, 2017 early morning Yushan Changshu, Jiangsu Caojing Zone 2 74 fires, causing 22 dead and three injuries.

After investigation and evidence collection by the public security department, this is an arson case. After investigation by the public security department, the suspect Jiang Moumou has been captured. The suspects intentionally set fire to them, resulting in 22 innocent lives being lost!

Cases of suspected man-made fires in a fire not only pose a serious threat to public safety, but also greatly weaken the sense of security of the people, and also bring great harm to the lives and property of the people. Next, the author combines the actual work, analysis of the causes and countermeasures of the frequent occurrence of suspected cases of artificial fire.

I. Characteristics of man-made arson

First, it is characterized by suddenness, concealment, and a wide range of hazards that can easily cause major personal injury and property losses. Compared with other fires, fire caused by artificial fires is more sudden and invisible. Those who deliberately set fire to crimes often choose to commit crimes at night, when they are unguarded and when there are few people, often with serious consequences. June 16, 2002, the capital of Beijing Lan Ji Su sensation cafe arson case, is at 2:00 am, in the case of Internet cafes staff unsuspecting suddenly, killing 25 people burned to death 12 people burned to serious consequences.

Second, the personnel who commit crimes of arson are generally low in education, weak in legal awareness, and have poor self-control ability.

Taking Beijing as an example, according to statistics, among the 26 arsonists who were tried by the Beijing First Intermediate People's Court from 2006 to 2008 , the average age was 30 years old, and the youngest was only 16 years old. Among them, 17 were unemployed, 2 were high school or above, and the rest were all below the junior high school education level. There were even psychiatric patients. These people often cannot correctly handle conflicts in the face of family, neighborhood or labor disputes. Once the contradictions are intensified, it is easy to lose control of emotions and cannot calmly treat them, so that taking extreme behaviors to vent their emotions or retaliating to retaliate against others often leads to tragedies.

Second, the cause of artificially arson

First, the intensification of social contradictions is the main reason for the frequent occurrence of man-made arson. At present, China is in a special period of economic and social transformation. With the profound changes and adjustments in the economic structure, social structure, and interest structure, the diversification of interest subjects and diversification of value orientations have become increasingly prominent. This has led to the formation of internal conflicts among the people. The multiplicity, diversity, and complexity of social contradictions have become the main cause of frequent human-made arson attacks. The first type is the contradiction between labor and capital. Recently, the incidents caused by the contradiction between labor and capital have frequently appeared. The "labour wages game" is becoming the focus of recent China's economic development in some areas. At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, labor disputes and disputes in the year will often be highlighted at this time. For example, if the salary is issued and the date of return of the loan is often at the end of the year or at the beginning of the year, if the parties do not properly handle it, the conflict will often be enlarged and intensified. One party may resort to arson or other methods to retaliate.

The second category is the conflict between the rich and the poor. In recent years, the income gap between China's regions, urban and rural areas, industries, and groups has increased. The unbalanced distribution pattern has caused some social wealth to be concentrated in a few people. The income gap has surpassed the warning “red line” of the Gini coefficient. Due to the widening gap between the rich and the poor in society, some people at the bottom of the society have serious hate and hate thoughts and extreme behaviors. They also intentionally set fire to the destruction of others’ property.

Second, the sense of safety of the masses has weakened and there has been an increase in the number of man-made fires. The urban-rural junction and the old city are poor in infrastructure and backward in physical defense. The open residential quarters are wide in area and long in length. Although some residential quarters have guards, they do not earnestly perform their duties and there are few registrations for strangers in and out of the community. , It is useless. Some residents’ perceptions of law and order are relatively weak, and the neighborhood’s watch has become an empty phrase, which has objectively contributed to the arrogance of criminals and has led to an increase in the number of man-made fires.

Third, there are more historical cases and the rate of man-made arson is low. The scene of a fire is a destructive site, and in particular, there are few effective clues available on the scene of an arson case. After a difficult investigation at the scene, the fire department will transfer to the criminal department for further detection after finding out that it is suspected to be arson, and look for arsonists. However, due to the complex social relations of the people at the current stage, the lack of coverage of public security surveillance video, and the inadequate allocation of public security police forces, it is often the case that the rate of detection of arson cases is not high, which has a certain impact on the society, and criminals are prone to fortune. It is considered that arson is more "safety insurance" than other forms of retaliation.

III. Measures to curb the frequent occurrence of man-made fires

At this stage, especially in the period of social transformation, human-made arson fires cannot be completely controlled in the short term, nor can they be compared with simple fire hazards. Fire hazards can be eliminated in time through fire inspections and fire control can be controlled. The arson fire cases are of an artificial nature and subjective, and the “active” is in the hands of the perpetrators. Once a fire occurs, it can easily cause serious loss of life and property. The fire investigation work can not be “scared to avoid medical treatment”. To maximize the control of man-made fire accidents, the author combines his own work experience to discuss the following four aspects:

The first is to improve the investigation mechanism and increase the rate of detection of arson cases. First of all, the fire department should coordinate the public security department to establish a sound fire investigation mechanism, and include the fire detection rate into the evaluation mechanism, so as to promote the improvement of the fire detection rate. Secondly, we must give full play to the fire investigation business of the fire department and the key role of the criminal investigation business of the public security department, increase the police force allocation of the investigators, complete the equipment necessary for the fire investigation, increase the coverage of the public security surveillance video, improve the quality of the fire investigation work, and strive to improve The rate of arson is clarified, and criminals are brought to justice to eliminate chance.

The second is to strengthen publicity and increase public safety awareness. First of all, we must strengthen the propaganda of social firefighting safety, carry out firefighting propaganda in various forms and methods, strive to raise people's awareness of fire safety prevention, and vigorously promote safety and prevention into communities, schools, enterprises, and families, and strengthen private activities. Property protection measures allow criminals to take advantage of it. Second, we must strengthen the publicity and education of the legal system and raise the people's legal awareness. Actively carry out legal education, ideological and moral propaganda activities. Showcasing the serious harm of arson crimes, raising the vigilance of the people, and at the same time educating the people to know the law and abide by the law, correctly handle the contradictions. At the same time, it has fully ascertained the arson of cases that have been identified as a typical case in the news media and informs people of the legal consequences of arson, which is enough to deter criminals.

The third is to combine public security with prevention and control to eliminate social conflicts and disputes in a timely manner. First of all, we must increase inspections and maintain a high degree of vigilance against arson crimes. Improve the alarm system, establish a regional prevention and control mechanism, and further implement the community's civil air defense, physical defense, and technical defense measures, strengthen safety precautions, and eliminate various factors that may easily lead to arson crimes, and do not give firefighters an opportunity. Second, we must strengthen grass-roots community comprehensive management of public order and actively divert disputes. We must establish and improve grass-roots organizations and mediation organizations in accordance with the law, and encourage communities, streets, schools, and units to actively channel and appropriately resolve various disputes, conflicts, and conflicts in the daily lives of the people and eliminate the internal factors of violence. Public security police stations should combine mediation disputes that are frequently carried out to eliminate in time the feelings of antagonism between the parties, inform the legal consequences that the crimes must bear, and do a good job of mediators and communicators and try to eliminate the criminal motives in the bud. .

The fourth is to increase the investment in prevention forces and put "Skynet" on the combat and prevention work. Whether the prevention and control facilities are sound or whether the number of facilities is sufficient determines, to a large extent, the strength of social control. The first is to establish a patrol network, with the help of various groups of defense group governance power, in accordance with the grid patrol mode, a reasonable dispatch of the police force, and strengthen social patrol control. With the permission of manpower and material resources, increase the patrol density of the main street, bustling road sections, key locations, and urban-rural junctions, so as to achieve day-and-night linkage, urban-rural interaction, and optimization of the grid-based patrol mechanism. Extend the scope of crime crimes. Followed by the establishment of key parts of the monitoring network. For the arson cases that may occur in key units and key locations, the unit security units and the security guards at the stations will be coordinated to give full play to the role of the internal unit guard organizations. Patrol care and security inspections will be the basic form, and internal unit public security prevention and control work will be strengthened. In particular, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, supervise and urge internal units to implement the main body of the legal representative of the unit or the principal responsible person of the company to protect the main body of responsibility for the work of safety and security protection, strengthen the construction of the security organization, strictly implement various measures for air defense, physical defense, and technical prevention, and form units responsible for fire control. The good pattern.

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