APR 17, 2019
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If your car is stalled in the middle of the Carmack parking lot and no one is around, how long would it take the Ohio State University Police Department help?
The answer: 15 minutes and 1 second. At least, that’s how long it took for one response on Nov. 5 at 8:31 in the morning in the Carmack 3 lot.
However, if it’s something more pressing like a fire alarm, police will be on scene in an average time of just 3 minutes and 53 seconds.
In a dataset of University Police responses from Aug. 6, 2018, to Dec. 20, 2018, obtained by The Lantern, 17,671 dispatch entries of all police calls were analyzed, finding that University Police took an average of 3 minutes and 34 seconds to arrive on scene after being dispatched.
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