{"id":52,"date":"2016-05-04T03:48:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2016-05-04T04:07:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T04:07:57","slug":"project-arson-uncovering-the-true-arson-rate-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/project-arson-uncovering-the-true-arson-rate-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Arson: Uncovering the True Arson Rate in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project Arson: Uncovering the True Arson Rate in the United States<br \/>\nDavid J. Icove, The University of Tennessee<br \/>\nThomas K. Hargrove, Scripps News Washington Bureau<\/p>\n<p>Presented at\u00a0International Symposium of Fire Investigation, 2014<\/p>\n<p>ABSTRACT<br \/>\nMany forensic investigators and practitioners in the field of arson suppression sense that the true arson rate in the\u00a0United States is far higher than is commonly reported. This paper reports on efforts to uncover the true arson rate in\u00a0the United States through a nationwide audit conducted by a national news service in partnership with a major\u00a0university. Using traditional social science research methods and constructing pattern-recognition algorithms, the\u00a0project focused on an examination of building and vehicle fire statistics for the 2006-2011 time period recorded by\u00a0the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) and the application of geographic, socioeconomic, and\u00a0mortgage foreclosure data to those statistics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/5c9d0z07ahlupeg\/ISFI2014Proceedings_ProjectArson_DIcove_THargrove.pdf?dl=0\">Download the complete paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Arson: Uncovering the True Arson Rate in the United States David J. Icove, The University of Tennessee Thomas K. Hargrove, Scripps News Washington Bureau Presented at\u00a0International Symposium of Fire Investigation, 2014 ABSTRACT Many forensic investigators and practitioners in the field of arson suppression sense that the true arson rate in the\u00a0United States is far &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/project-arson-uncovering-the-true-arson-rate-in-the-united-states\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Project Arson: Uncovering the True Arson Rate in the United States<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,20],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arson","tag-isfi","tag-nafi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nafi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}