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  4. September 2024
  5. 18

Elk Grove, California · one day

Wednesday 18 September 2024

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

10

drone flights over Elk Grove that day.

3:20 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:28 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Elk Grove police drones flew 10 times on Wednesday 18 September 2024, the first at 3:20 pm and the last at 10:28 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other80%
  2. Not stated20%

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
3:20 pmOther9 minEGPD-240
3:37 pmNot stated14 minEGPD-240
3:55 pmOther25 minEGPD-240
5:09 pmOther6 minEGPD-240
5:23 pmOther14 minEGPD-240
6:01 pmOther27 minEGPD-240
7:42 pmOther8 minEGPD-240
8:07 pmOther6 minEGPD-240
10:12 pmOther14 minEGPD-240
10:28 pmNot stated17 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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