TABLE 2—

Number of Dispatch Calls for Boston Police Department (BPD), Boston Emergency Medical Services (BEMS), and Boston Fire Department (BFD) for the Warm Season Versus the Full Year: Boston, MA, 2010–2014

	Full Year, No. or Mean	Warm-Season Restricted, No. or Mean	P
Total dispatches
BPD	2 691 191	1 037 897
BEMS	494 615	187 284
BFD	288 526	109 804
Mean dispatches per d
BPD	2 122.4	2 261.2	< .001
BEMS	390.1	408.0	<.001
BFD	227.5	239.2	< .001

Note. Warm season was defined as May through September. A Student t test evaluated the difference in the mean number of dispatches per day for each agency in the warm season compared with full-year analyses, at α = 0.05 significance level.