CityDroneWatch
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  4. August 2024
  5. 21

Elk Grove, California · one day

Wednesday 21 August 2024

10 drone flights from Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

10

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

12:13 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 7:42 pm.

20 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 10 times on Wednesday 21 August 2024, the first at 12:13 pm and the last at 7:42 pm PDT, by Elk Grove Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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, PDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other70%
  2. Not stated30%

Flights, in order

10 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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:13 pmNot stated2 minEGPD-240
2:14 pmNot stated30 sEGPD-240
2:15 pmOther22 minEGPD-240
2:40 pmNot stated14 minEGPD-240
2:58 pmOther19 minEGPD-240
3:43 pmOther22 minEGPD-240
4:13 pmOther23 minEGPD-240
4:49 pmOther20 minEGPD-240
5:39 pmOther20 minEGPD-240
7:42 pmOther22 minEGPD-240

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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