Police response times in my "10% as dense as it should be" suburb (a place that would be the poster child for everything urbanists hate) are 3x faster than they

Police response times in my "10% as dense as it should be" suburb (a place that would be the poster child for everything urbanists hate) are 3x faster than they are in NYC. That is largely due to having high mobility through the town. In pure distance terms, I live about 20x further from the police station, though. The average door-to-door time between my house and the nearest level 1 trauma center is 10 minutes shorter than it would be when I lived in Manhattan. It turns out that having the paramedics wait for an elevator really cuts into their response time. A level 3 trauma center is 25 minutes closer (there are no level 3 trauma centers in Manhattan). https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/nypds-slow-response-times-keep-growing-longer-data-shows https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/nypds-slow-response... Cities are built for average-case living, and that is fine until you need it not to be.