Onondaga, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

CNY Signal logged 1,243 radio calls in Onondaga over the last 30 days, an average of 41.4 a day, and 2,878 calls over the last 90 days. That is 9th out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

Most of what crosses the air in Onondaga is traffic we do not tag as EMS, Fire or Law: 51.3 percent of the last 30 days, against 21.5 percent regionally. That is typically unit to unit and dispatch chatter rather than a distinct incident type. The 29.8 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates Onondaga from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 16.2 percent, Fire 8.8 percent and Law enforcement 23.7 percent.

Activity in Onondaga peaks across the middle of the day, at the 3 p.m. hour, which takes 5.9 percent of the last 90 days. Monday is the busiest day of the week at 16.3 percent. Things are thinnest in the 3 a.m. hour.

No single call type dominates Onondaga. Sorted by how often they come up, the ones most likely to cross a scanner there over the last 90 days are medical call (244), vehicle crash (189), traffic stop (157), domestic complaint (139) and suspicious activity (99).

Tune a scanner to Onondaga and most of what you hear is Sheriffs Office, which carried 743 of the calls we logged there over the last 90 days. Also on the air are New York State Police, SUNY University (Hospital) Public Safety and Onondaga Community College.

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 Onondaga rather than period over period trends.