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Near four-minute wait for cops: study
Two western Queens precincts have longest dispatch times in boro, budget offi ce says
an average of 5.36 minutes.
Across the city, nine precincts
had crime in progress dispatch
times greater than 5 minutes.
Six of those precincts were in
the Bronx.
The study also notes
that the New York Police
Department has not provided
the City Council with
quarterly reports on police
response time disaggregated
by borough, precinct, and the
three daily police shifts even
though they are required to do
so under Local Law 89 of 1991.
Such data would allow the
public to see how long it takes
between the 911 call and the
police’s arrival to the scene.
Here are the Queens
precincts with the five longest
dispatch times:
• 108th Precinct (Long
Island City) – 3.72 minutes
• 104th Precinct (Ridge
-wood, Glendale, Maspeth,
Middle Village) – 3.42 minutes
• 105th Precinct (Queens
Village, Laurelton, Cambria
Heights and other southeast
Queens neighborhoods) –
3.4 minutes
• 102nd Precinct (Kew
Gardens, Ozone Park,
Richmond Hill, Woodhaven) –
3.2 minutes
• 115th Precinct (Corona,
East Elmhurst, Jackson
Heights) – 3.07 minutes
“The NYPD response to
crimes in progress and critical
crimes in progress has gone
down year-over-year since
2014,” an NYPD spokesperson
SICK LEAVE ABUSE NAUSEATES JFK WORKERS
said in a statement. “Reducing
response times to 911 calls is a
priority of the NYPD so officers
can provide assistance,
initiate an investigation
or render aide. Safety is a
shared responsibility and
we encourage individuals
to call 911 when there is an
emergency. The NYPD will
continue to work closely with
members of the community
to in order to make
every New York City
neighborhood safe.”
Hundreds of Eulen America workers based at JFK Airport protested on the steps of City Hall last week against the company’s
alleged abuse of paid sick leave regulations. For more information, see the story on Page 3. Courtesy of 32BJ SEIU
BY MAX PARROTT
Residents in Long Island
City and surrounding
neighborhoods who call 911
wait the longest out of anyone
in Queens before dispatch
sends out police officers,
data shows.
The 108th Precinct — based
in Long Island City and also
patrolling nearby Sunnyside,
Woodside and West Maspeth
— takes an average of 3.72
minutes to send out a car,
according to data compiled
by the city’s Independent
Budget Office.
The data, which was culled
from dispatch data in the
Mayor’s Office of Management
Budget, does not show how long
it takes the police department
to actually respond to a 911
call — from the initial call to
the time officers arrive at the
scene. What it does show is
dispatch time – the number
of minutes it takes for a police
dispatcher to find and assign
officers to respond to a possible
crime in progress, localized
for different precincts for the
fiscal year 2018.
But it’s not all bad news for
Queens residents.
The borough also contains
the fastest precinct response
time in the city. The 100th
Precinct in the Rockaways
took an average of 1.57 minutes
to arrive on the scene. On the
whole, the borough has one of
the speediest dispatch times in
the city with an average of 2.67
minutes, coming in second
overall after Staten Island.
In fact, even the 108th
Precinct’s dispatch time is
faster than the city’s average of
3.8 minutes. The Bronx is the
outlier of the data set, driving
up the city average with
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