Emergency medical services
If not police, what? Part II
This week in Critical State, a foreign policy newsletter by Inkstick Media, Sam Ratner takes a deep dive into the history of Freedom House, a Pittsburgh-based Black-led nonprofit hired in 1968 to offer ambulance services in some of the predominantly Black neighborhoods around the city.
Emergency response system suffers under patchwork funding
The emergency response team in Oak Creek, Wis., has received high praise for its timely and response to Sunday’s shooting. But an emergency medical expert says a response like that is the exception, not the rule. He calls the ambulance system in the United States a public policy disaster.
