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I work in 911 dispatch, and there's definitely something about full moons.
It's not that we're busier, or that the calls I get are more serious, but everything is just a little bit off when the moon is full. It's subtle, I don't think it would even be reflected in the types of calls we're entering, but a lot of our callers just get weirder.
Yes there is a correlation, its been studied scientifically I believe. It is also the origin of the word "Lunacy", because the moon (Lune in French, Luna in Latin) is associated with madness
TIL Lune from Expedition 33 was insane
Way back in the 80s a dispatcher I was dating told me that very often they would see a little burst of activity right during shift changes - like burglar alarms going off. She said during the brief handoff period there was often a slight bit of confusion, or at least not 100% efficiency, and that "the bad guys" knew the schedule and would time their actions to take advantage of this.
I haven't really noticed a burst of activity, but it's certainly occured to me if I ever turned to a life of crime that I'd do stuff during that shift change, a couple of the departments we dispatch for definitely take their time with it and there's often a pretty solid block of time where unless something serious is going down you're not getting a quick police response.
Some of them handle it more efficiently than others, and the size of the town is a pretty big factor too. I've had more than a few callers complain about how long it's taking because they live right by the station, but usually officers aren't just hanging around at the station, they're out on patrol and responding to incidents, shift change is pretty much the one time you're going to find the station full of cops.
I heard from someone that works in a hospital that the ER gets weirder cases when the moon is full