In addition to troubling increases in crime and disorder since 2020, another law enforcement measure should now give New Yorkers pause: Police response times, which have been inching higher since 2016.
However, the more recent upticks have made what was at first a disconcerting blip into a troubling trend.
Compared to January 2018, NYPD response times reported in December 2023 have risen across the board—that is, for critical (up 22%), serious (up 45.5%), and non-critical (up 28.7%) calls.
The average wait time for the latter — noise complaints, loiterers, and the like — is now more than 27 minutes.
This is no small matter.
The recent spike in NYPD response times poses at least two significant problems.
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Rafael Mangual is the Nick Ohnell Fellow and head of research for the Policing and Public Safety Initiative at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is also the author of Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most.
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