Many offenders, including rapists and arsonists, were escaping with just a caution, he claimed.
Where the arsonists were more successful, such as Tottenham, in north London, scars remain.
He rightly points out that abandoned property creates a playground for drug dealers and arsonists.
Mr Huff lists six potential motives for arsonists: revenge, excitement, profit, vandalism, extremism, and to cover another crime.
It is just metres from the Croydon furniture store which was burned to the ground by arsonists.
In Leeds, arsonists targeted the carnival centre in Sheepscar at about 00:30 BST.
In the past week at least 20 grass and gorse fires have been tackled, with some being blamed on arsonists.
As firefighting crews battled the blazes, authorities blamed arsonists for starting some, and even relighting others that had been brought under control.
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Arsonists who torched a Grade II-listed mansion in Somerset have been jailed.
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People have been denied insurance because they were mistaken for arsonists.
Not every young adult has the talent and discipline of Jessica Ennis or Mo Farah, but nor are they epitomised by the wild looters and arsonists who roamed city streets last summer.
In fact, all the conservative Republicans, from Newt Gingrich to Pete Wilson, who have sought political advantage by exploiting white resentment should come and stand in the charred ruins of the New Liberty Baptist Church in Tyler, a tiny hamlet 10 miles east of Selma, and wonder if their coded phrases encouraged the arsonists.
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