Flatbush Waits Longest For Police To Come, Data Shows

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — Flatbush residents who call 911 wait almost twice as long for police to come than any other Brooklyn local and most New Yorkers, recently released data shows.

NYPD officers from the 67th Precinct took an average of 6.27 minutes to respond to an emergency call in 2018, making the Flatbush precinct the slowest in Brooklyn and among the slowest in New York City, data from New York City's Independent Budget Office shows.

The citywide average wait time for the 450,000 possible crimes reported last year in New York's 77 precincts was 3.80 minutes, with the worst response times reported in Flatbush, four Bronx precincts, and Manhattan's Midtown North.

Longest NYPD Dispatch Response Times

1. The Bronx's 47th Precinct in Wakefield: 8.03 minutes
2. The Bronx's 44th Precinct in Concourse: 7.7 minutes
3. Manhattan's 18th Precinct in Midtown: 6.98 minutes
4. The Bronx's 49th Precinct in Morris Park: 6.98 minutes
5. The Bronx's 46th Precinct in Fordham Heights: 6.5 minutes
6. The 67th Precinct in Flatbush, Brooklyn: 6.27 minutes

Queens' 100th Precinct in the Rockaways reported the shortest wait time at just 1.6 minutes

The IBO analysts, who relied on dispatch data from the Mayor's Office of Management Budget for Thursday's report, also notes that the gap between lowest and highest wait times has tripled since 2014.

"The NYPD response to crimes in progress and critical crimes in progress has gone down year-over-year since 2014," an NYPD spokesperson stated in response.

"The NYPD will continue to work closely with members of the community to in order to make every New York City neighborhood safe."