NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Don't expect police in midtown Manhattan to respond to your 911 call as quickly as they would elsewhere in the city.
So says a new report from the city's Independent Budget Office, which says the two midtown precincts -- Midtown South and Midtown North -- have the slowest dispatch times in Manhattan.
According to the report, it takes police dispatchers five minutes to assign officers to a possible crime in progress in Midtown South -- and nearly seven minutes in Midtown North. Those two precincts covers an area roughly from 29th Street to 60th Street, and the Hudson River to Lexington Avenue.
In fact, no other precinct in Manhattan had dispatch times longer than four minutes, according to the study.
Citywide, the midtown precincts also pale in comparison: The average dispatch time across the city's 77 precincts was 3.8 minutes in 2018 for about 450,000 possible crimes-in-progress.
In response to the report, NYPD's Sgt. Jessica McRorie said the force's response to "crimes in progress and critical crimes in progress" has dropped year over year since 2014.
"Safety is a shared responsibility and we encourage individuals to call 911 when there is an emergency," McRorie said. "The NYPD will continue to work closely with members of the community to in order to make every New York City neighborhood safe."
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