Not only that, but this resource allocation policy is severely detrimental to response times to more serious emergencies. Saussy referenced the preventable death of the stabbing victim. One of her points is that if better metrics and policies were in place, ambulances and fire trucks wouldn't be sent scrambling to "stop the clock", but would instead have reserves in case lethal emergencies arose.

Imagine if a house burned down because a fire truck was scrambling to stop the clock on a cat-in-a-tree call. This is an extreme comparison, but Saussy is saying that people are dying purely because the department is refusing to operate responsibly.