LaFayette, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

CNY Signal logged 254 radio calls in LaFayette over the last 30 days, an average of 8.5 a day, and 656 calls over the last 90 days. That is 19th out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

On the radio, LaFayette is a law enforcement town. Police traffic is 37 percent of everything logged there over the last 30 days, against 12.2 percent across the region. The 24.8 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates LaFayette from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 21.3 percent, Fire 5.1 percent and General radio traffic 36.6 percent.

Activity in LaFayette peaks across the middle of the day, at the 2 p.m. hour, which takes 7.5 percent of the last 90 days. Wednesday is the busiest day of the week at 16.5 percent. Things are thinnest in the 2 a.m. hour. Weekends account for only 24.1 percent of the LaFayette total against the 28.6 percent an even week would give, making this a weekday heavy town.

No single call type dominates LaFayette. Sorted by how often they come up, the ones most likely to cross a scanner there over the last 90 days are medical call (83), vehicle crash (69), disabled vehicle (38), traffic stop (38) and assist (30).

Tune a scanner to LaFayette and most of what you hear is Sheriffs Office, which carried 123 of the calls we logged there over the last 90 days. Also on the air are New York State Police, Lafayette Fire Department and Lafayette 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 LaFayette rather than period over period trends.