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  4. March 2025
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Mesa, Arizona · one day

Tuesday 18 March 2025

26 drone flights from Mesa Police Department's published record.

26

drone flights over Mesa that day.

10:08 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:12 pm.

3 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Mesa police drones flew 26 times on Tuesday 18 March 2025, the first at 10:08 am and the last at 8:12 pm MST, by Mesa Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, MST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated100%

Flights, in order

26 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (MST)PurposeAirborneFlight
10:08 amNot stated48 sMESAPD-2
10:45 amNot stated22 minMESAPD-2
11:47 amNot stated17 minMESAPD-2
12:33 pmNot stated7 minMESAPD-2
1:23 pmNot stated4 minMESAPD-2
1:32 pmNot stated2 minMESAPD-2
1:39 pmNot stated2 minMESAPD-2
1:45 pmNot stated1 min 54 sMESAPD-2
1:53 pmNot stated1 min 54 sMESAPD-2
1:57 pmNot stated1 min 54 sMESAPD-2
2:04 pmNot stated3 minMESAPD-2
2:11 pmNot stated3 minMESAPD-2
2:17 pmNot stated2 minMESAPD-2
2:22 pmNot stated2 minMESAPD-2
2:27 pmNot stated2 minMESAPD-2
2:43 pmNot stated1 min 42 sMESAPD-2
3:16 pmNot stated4 minMESAPD-2
3:35 pmNot stated2 minMESAPD-2
4:31 pmNot stated24 minMESAPD-2
4:59 pmNot stated24 minMESAPD-2
5:26 pmNot stated20 minMESAPD-2
5:50 pmNot stated17 minMESAPD-2
6:12 pmNot stated24 minMESAPD-2
6:55 pmNot stated21 minMESAPD-2
8:10 pmNot stated1 min 48 sMESAPD-2
8:12 pmNot stated2 minMESAPD-2

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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