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I'm curious, how do they actually figure out who is behind a forest fire? Or even suspect that it was a criminal act in the first place. Finding who is behind

• lazyasciiart 3y ago
  They don't need to cover the whole forest, usually the fire is first seen when still small. But it's a lot of work, I don't know how often they are successful: https://www.nwcg.gov/sites/default/files/publications/pms412.pdf https://www.nwcg.gov/sites/default/files/publications/pms412... (I also know that forensic fire investigation for house fires/criminal investigations is basically a made up art with extremely unreliable results - not sure how much that overlaps with wildfire investigations).
• eastbound 3y ago
  I’ve always wondered, even in criminal cases, even here in France. Do they pin it on someone? Crime is prone to be pinned onto someone, it calms the populations, and it doesn’t matter whether he did it because he’s in jail, so of course he’s angry. I personally know someone whose lawyer asked him for a large sum in cash in the 7 minutes before a trial, in the antichamber of the court.
• P_I_Staker 3y ago
  You don't. Just grab some shlub and do some whitch doctor bullshit to convict them.
  • kwere 3y ago
    just play nice cop for an hour and people with that profile will confess JFK killing