daveswedler.bsky.social
Public health statistician (PhD, MPH) currently working for Chicago DPH. All opinions are my own. Dog photos will be posted.
Chicago. He/him.
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Bike ridership has been flat while Divvy/Lyft has successfully expanded their scooter fleet over the last year.
They don't release the scooter data with the bikes, its only updated every 6 months on a different Chicago Data Portal page.
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And to think I opted to skip this at the last minute.
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🗣️🤚👂
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I can’t believe I wrote 5 instead of 6-way intersection. Point still stands
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This is a crime to say he’s driving
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Uh, what dog now?
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Would you share some of what you found in the clinical literature? My stats work (currently) has shifted to descriptive & graphical methods, but I don’t want to get rusty with risk/likelihood stats. Thanks in advance for anything you have to share.
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My final opinion is that you'll have a very hard time studying LEO suicides because those who most support LEOs can't/won't reckon w/the 800-lb gorilla of the role of firearms. And those who most understand occupational health & workplace suicide don't communicate well w/the former.
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A friend & I once proposed to study officer suicide & the possibility of prevention via biometric or technical firearm ID. At the last minute a former mentor undercut our proposal for political reasons (something he & the upcoming H. Clinton administration were planning). So, sorry, no study 🤷
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To the suicide aspect, the inclusion of officer deaths in the NLEOMF is political. Reading the NYT article revived my *opinion* that the role of firearms in these suicides is why they aren't included.
We give officers the means of nearly certain suicide completion, then don't reflect on that
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Current occupational homicide rates of officers are trending down. We described this in 2014, but this paper is a snapshot of a longer trend. I was once shown data (I can't share???) that officer homicide rates are nothing compared to the '60s or '30s
injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/20/1...
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Occupational epidemiology in American LEOs is not super well-described. Again, I would cite Dr. Hope Tiesman at NIOSH for more detail on officer health & safety, but NIOSH is gone*.
As for occupational homicide, LEOs as an occupation have lower rates than, say, retail...
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First, the NLEOMF isn't the gold standard of law enforcement deaths in the US. The gold standard for all occupational deaths in the US is NIOSH's CFOI. But...NIOSH was just defunded. There are many ways to examine LEO deaths in the US, which we did
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Great or not, I still look like a toddler