DeWitt, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

DeWitt is one of the busiest municipalities in this archive. The last 30 days produced 1,637 logged radio calls there, about 54.6 a day, and the 90 day total stands at 4,311. That is 5th out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

On the radio, DeWitt is a law enforcement town. Police traffic is 44.8 percent of everything logged there over the last 30 days, against 12.2 percent across the region. The 32.6 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates DeWitt from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 14.1 percent, Fire 12 percent and General radio traffic 29 percent.

The DeWitt radio day starts early. The 11 a.m. hour is the single busiest, at 6.9 percent of the last 90 days, and Thursday leads the week at 16.2 percent. Things are thinnest in the 2 a.m. hour.

No single call type dominates DeWitt. Sorted by how often they come up, the ones most likely to cross a scanner there over the last 90 days are vehicle crash (487), medical call (453), assist (177), fire alarm (172) and domestic complaint (160).

Tune a scanner to DeWitt and most of what you hear is Dewitt Police, which carried 1,713 of the calls we logged there over the last 90 days. Also on the air are Dewitt Fire Department, Syracuse Airport Police and EAVES Ambulance.

Counted from the CNY Signal scanner archive, not an agency call log. Volume tracks how much of the time our receivers were up as well as real activity, so we publish shares, peaks and rankings for DeWitt rather than period over period trends.