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Study: Urban African-Americans more likely to live in trauma deserts
African-Americans in major U.S. cities are significantly more likely to live in "trauma deserts" with limited access to advanced emergency medical care, according to new research from the University of Chicago Medicine. The study also shows the academic medical center's new Level 1 Trauma Center led to a seven-fold reduction in Chicago's access disparity.

The findings, published March 8 in the Journal of the American Medical Association's Network Open, are the first to be released about the impact of UChicago Medicine's adult Level 1 Trauma Center. Adult trauma services at the hospital began in May 2018.

"So much of the advocacy for the trauma center was framed in terms of racial equity," said Elizabeth Tung, MD, MS, a primary care physician and instructor of medicine at UChicago Medicine who was the paper's first author. "But we realized no previous studies had addressed trauma access through the lens of race/ethnicity - not just looking at Chicago, but comparing our city to other communities as well."

The research team examined access to trauma care in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles using a geospatial analysis that compared the location of designated trauma centers with the racial and ethnic composition of the cities' census tracts. The project included only Level 1 and Level 2 Trauma Centers, which are able to provide medical care to patients with the most serious injuries.

Using a standard established in previous research from colleagues at other hospitals, the team defined a "trauma desert" as any urban community that is at least five miles away from advanced trauma care. While many suburban and rural communities are significantly further away from trauma care, Tung said dense urban communities must be assessed differently.

"Five miles in a rural area is probably five minutes away, but in an urban area that same distance could be 15 minutes or it could be two hours away - it entirely depends on traffic congestion," Tung said. "The kind of care in urban trauma also differs from that in rural areas - the types of trauma are generally different, the patient volume is higher and the injuries are more severe."

Trauma centers provided advanced emergency medical care for patients with critical injuries, including those from motor vehicle accidents, falls, shootings and stabbings.

In Chicago, the team found that 73 percent of census tracts with a mostly black population were located in trauma deserts. Until UChicago Medicine's trauma center opened 10 months ago on its Hyde Park medical campus, residents of those communities had 8.5 times higher odds of being farther away from trauma care than people living in the city's white-majority census tracts. The new trauma center reduced this disparity by nearly 7-fold, to 1.6 times.

"Since we opened the trauma center nearly one year ago in May, the disparity in access to adult trauma care has been significantly lessened for African-Americans in Chicago," said Selwyn Rogers, Jr., MD, MPH, a professor of surgery and the director of UChicago Medicine's trauma center, which has treated more than 2,000 trauma patients.

In New York City, just 14 percent of African-American communities were located in trauma deserts. In Los Angeles, 89 percent of African-American communities were located in trauma deserts, although very few census tracts in Los Angeles remain predominantly African-American. The team said Chicago's Hispanic and Latino communities were also more likely to be farther from trauma care than those living in white communities. The Hispanic and Latino disparity was not present in New York or Los Angeles.

"Even though we had a sense that this was a racially divided issue, the data confirmed that this was the case in a significant way. It was pretty startling," said Monica Peek, MD, MPH, an associate professor of medicine and health disparities researcher who was the senior author on the paper.

UChicago Medicine has provided pediatric trauma care at Comer Children's Hospital since 1990, but previously ended its adult trauma program in 1988 before announcing it would resume the service in 2015 in response to community requests. The hospital built a new adult emergency department, which opened in late December 2017. Adult trauma services launched about five months later, following regulatory approval.

The researchers said they hope their findings highlight the lingering impact of structural inequality in U.S. cities. They said planning for new trauma centers, which require a significant financial investment, should include an assessment of how a new facility can help address racial equity.
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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uocm-sua030819.php
 
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tokes99 said:
what does this refer to? i can't find anything referencing anything related to this...
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tay1 said:
Therefore it's false
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HOW ABOUT DOING A LIL MORE DIGGING
JUST CAUSE YOU CANT FIND IT
DOESNT MEAN ITS FALSE




Illinois just quietly passed a law that makes it a felony to record the police without consent

In most states it is completely legal to record police when they are on duty. It's a basic right that keeps the government accountable. But Illinois just passed a vague law that discourages people from recording interactions with police by making it a felony in certain situatons, adding jail time if a person "eavesdrops" on a police officer. This could be a dangerous trend unless we stop it now.

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"We have a First Amendment right to record interactions with law enforcement and government officials. Don't make Illinois a Constitution-free zone. Veto the Amendment to SB 1342. There should be no increased penalty when people record police and government officials, and no expanded powers for law enforcement to eavesdrop without a warrant."

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At a time when people nationwide are calling for more transparency from police, politicians in Illinois want to make it more illegal to record them.
People from across the political spectrum agree that the government needs to be accountable and transparent. The right to film and record law enforcement and government officials is a basic freedomthat protects us from abuse.

The U.S. is having an important conversation about police violence right now, in large part because people are able to record acts of abuse and share them freely on the Internet and with the media.

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But the legislature of Illinois just hastily passed an amendment to a completely unrelated bill that would make it increased felony to record police, prosecutors, or other officials when they have a "reasonable expectation of privacy." i would change But the bill doesn't define what that means, which creates a chilling effect and means the law can be used selectively. This leaves Illinois residents in doubt about whether or not they have the right to record their interactions with law enforcement. In March, the Illinois Supreme Court declared the state's eavesdropping law unconstitutional, specifically because it interfered with the public's right to record police. The new law is just as bad: by imposing stricter rules on recording police interactions than other interactions, the law discourages the public from exercising their rights.

Similarly vague laws have caused problems in other states. In May, a Massachusetts woman was charged with "wiretapping" for recording a police officer who was arresting her.

The ACLU of Illinois is less concerned than us about the felony enhancement, but they point out another extremely troubling aspect of this Amendment: it greatly expands the circumstances in which a law enforcement officer or informant can secretly record conversations without a warrant.

Read the full text of the Amendment here.
 
I wonder when that article you posted was written, one of it's sources is from 2014

Here's something from June last year that speaks specifically about recording police in IL:
https://www.richardscriminallaw.com...inst-the-law-to-film-police-in-illinois.shtml

You have the right to record, but there are some exceptions.

Since December 2014, anyone in Illinois can record on-duty law enforcement officers in public places without their consent. Recording interactions with cops both as a party to the interactions and as a bystander can be a good idea for several reasons. A cop may say that a person refused to cooperate when, in fact, the video shows the person obeying the officer's commands. Video footage could also capture police misconduct such as the use of excessive force or the failure to read a person their rights. Catching these things on camera can help to fight wrongful charges in court.

However, there are some cases in which it is illegal to film the police.
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tay1 said:
Therefore it's false
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i definitely didn't do anything approaching an intensive search, but given the claim i would certainly think that there'd be some news from the current year to come up in even a cursory search...

theregothatman said:
Yeah pretty sure that’s unconstitutional
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not necessarily, a few states probably have similarly vague laws about consent depending on the circumstance...as the link iamdef iamdef provided notes, it isn't absolute that one cannot record police interactions but that covertly/sneakily doing so (or in a situation where there is some expectation of privacy) in IL is illegal, which technically is also illegal in IL to record another civillian in such a circumstance.

nawghtyhare said:
HOW ABOUT DOING A LIL MORE DIGGING
JUST CAUSE YOU CANT FIND IT
DOESNT MEAN ITS FALSE
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now there might indeed by a general argument that people are much too concerned with celebrity/relatively unimportant things in comparison to things that potentially are much more important, but that image is definitely cappin, because it is conflating unrelated things or at least insinuating there is some relation to recent events...
 
tokes99 said:
i definitely didn't do anything approaching an intensive search, but given the claim i would certainly think that there'd be some news from the current year to come up in even a cursory search...



not necessarily, a few states probably have similarly vague laws about consent depending on the circumstance...as the link iamdef iamdef provided notes, it isn't absolute that one cannot record police interactions but that covertly/sneakily doing so (or in a situation where there is some expectation of privacy) in IL is illegal, which technically is also illegal in IL to record another civillian in such a circumstance.



now there might indeed by a general argument that people are much too concerned with celebrity/relatively unimportant things in comparison to things that potentially are much more important, but that image is definitely cappin, because it is conflating unrelated things or at least insinuating there is some relation to recent events...
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I’ll do some more digging when I get to work
 
tay1 said:
All of the sources are from 2014 and 2015 :lol:
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whether it was 2014 or 2019
u immediately claimed it false
not getting at u or anything like that
but we need to do more digging on things
before we just dismiss it
claim it false or claim it as legit
 
nawghtyhare said:
whether it was 2014 or 2019
u immediately claimed it false
not getting at u or anything like that
but we need to do more digging on things
before we just dismiss it
claim it false or claim it as legit
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The people who made that alarmist meme implying it was now should have done that.
 
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