I can't speak for College Station, but think of it like this.
You've got ten guys to a shift, working ten hour days. Actual time on the street if you're not counting eating and training and paperwork and loading up cars and getting gas and donuts....roughly eight hours.
During that eight hours for a busy shift you might take 15 calls for an evening / swing shift.
15 calls X 10 cops X 4 days a week = 600 calls per week
And McDonald's accounted for ONE of them. ________________________________________________________
And that's only ONE shift. You've still got three other days in the week and 14 other hours in the day where calls are coming in.
So for 1/3 of the cops in the department, working 4/7 of the week, McDonalds accounted for 1/600th of their call volume.
For a busy shift here it's not uncommon at all to have twenty something calls holding, just waiting on a cop to get free. And it'll be like that for an entire ten hour shift. I've seen over forty calls get backed up.
So when you spend forty hours a week with twenty calls waiting on you to take them, ONE call a week at McDonalds tends to get lost in the shuffle.
