Arson, one of the most tragic forms of disaster, a deliberate act by a sick mind. I will never understand what drives these people to commit such crimes. Nonetheless though I feel motivated to try to comprehend them. One famed arson fire was set by an arson investigator himself. The last person we’d suspect of all people. 

Another man from Redwood City,California videotaped his crime in 1988. He was later arrested and pled guilty. Some arsonists set fires to cover other criminal activity, some however it seems just get a thrill from the event. As a reporter I have set out to study the motives of various criminals. According to my research financial gain may also be a factor for some arsonists.

There have been cases where people have taken out insurance policies on property and then months or years later these structures have gone up in flames. I am not saying that all fires on insured property are set deliberately, only that that possibility is investigated so as to be ruled out.

There have been rare cases where domestic violence has provoked arson. Other motives include an addiction to fire known as pyromania, or arson may also be an act of terrorism as in the cases of the Klan burning crosses in the front yards of black families in the past to drive them from their homes.

Whatever the motives, Arson is an act of malicious cruelty, and those who engage in this type of activity need to be stopped at all costs. Arson is not tolerable under any circumstance, it is absolutely dispicable. One reason I wish to comprehend these people is that when I was young, about three years old, someone burned down the shed of the house I lived in, or at least that is what I was told.

Since then I have wanted to stop people that cause such destruction so families like mine can live peacefully.