Do you think there might be fewer killings* if the person who commits the act was legally required to clean up the crime scene AFTER the

investigations are completed?

 I am NOT referring to cases where the suspect is unknown, nor am I referring to the perpetrator having access that allows or might allow for evidence tampering. I am not referring to killers’ efforts to hide a crime, or to cover their involvement. I’m referring to the fact that currently, police officers, detectives, paramedics and firefighters are often the first officials to witness dead bodies. After that, the medical examiner, coroner’s staff, etc have access to the scene of the death. Once the investigation or investigations are completed and the body has been taken away to the morgue, some death scenes are left exactly as they are, others benefit from specialized companies or services that clean up those areas.  Other times, the family, the property owner, tenant, resident or other user, some third parties that are the ones who clean up scenes of death, if it happens at all.

*This encompasses a wide range of deaths that take place as the result of a person taking another’s life, not just in criminal acts, such as murder, homicide, manslaughter, but also accidental acts, such as vehicular, household incidents, neglect, etc.