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FogRider wrote:
Does anyone have any data on average police response times? I have consulted Google, but with limited success.
G00gle's hit number one. Too bad the formatting was destroyed but an examination of the original .pdf shows the most frequent response time for both crimes of violence and property crime (separately tabulated) as "11 minutes to an hour."
How is this table, G00gle hit number one, a "limited success"?
http://www.google.com/search?q=police+response+times
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cvus/current/cv05107.pdf
Table 107. Personal and property crimes, 2005: Download spreadsheet version
Percent distribution of incidents where police came to the victim,
by police response time and type of crime
Percent of incidents
Longer Length of
Within 5 6-10 11 minutes- Within than 1 time not Not
Type of crime Total minutes minutes 1 hour 1 day day known ascertained
Crimes of violence/a 100.0 % 28.9 % 27.9 % 34.0 % 3.8 % 1.9 %* 3.4 % 0.2 %*
Robbery 100.0 29.4 24.0 31.2 4.0 * 5.0 * 5.2 * 1.2 *
Aggravated assault 100.0 30.5 29.7 34.8 3.5 * 0.0 * 1.6 * 0.0 *
Simple assault 100.0 26.9 29.0 34.8 3.7 * 1.7 * 3.9 * 0.0 *
Property crimes 100.0 % 10.0 % 18.2 % 48.7 % 15.0 % 1.6 % 6.3 % 0.1 %*
Household burglary 100.0 8.5 20.9 51.7 12.5 0.8 * 5.6 0.0 *
Motor vehicle theft 100.0 7.9 21.7 43.7 19.6 0.5 * 6.1 * 0.6 *
Theft 100.0 11.3 15.9 48.0 15.5 2.3 6.8 0.1 *
Note: Detail may not add to total shown because of rounding.
*Estimate is based on about 10 or fewer sample cases.
a/Crimes of violence includes data on rape and sexual assault, not shown separately