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  4. January 2025
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Hawthorne, California · one day

Wednesday 15 January 2025

16 drone flights from Hawthorne Police Department's published record.

16

drone flights over Hawthorne that day.

4:51 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:02 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hawthorne police drones flew 16 times on Wednesday 15 January 2025, the first at 4:51 am and the last at 6:02 pm PST, by Hawthorne Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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, PST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated100%

Flights, in order

16 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 (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
4:51 amNot stated28 minHPD-2501
6:33 amNot stated14 minHPD-2501
8:59 amNot stated2 minHPD-2501
9:11 amNot stated10 minHPD-2501
9:49 amNot stated10 minHPD-2501
10:01 amNot stated22 minHPD-2501
10:40 amNot stated9 minHPD-2501
11:04 amNot stated10 minHPD-2501
11:21 amNot stated18 minHPD-2501
11:47 amNot stated12 minHPD-2501
3:09 pmNot stated18 minHPD-2501
4:06 pmNot stated4 minHPD-2501
4:32 pmNot stated6 minHPD-2501
4:47 pmNot stated13 minHPD-2501
5:03 pmNot stated12 minHPD-2501
6:02 pmNot stated21 minHPD-2501

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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