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  4. September 2024
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San Francisco, California · one day

Sunday 22 September 2024

5 drone flights from San Francisco Police Department's published record.

5

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 5 times on Sunday 22 September 2024, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

4 flights with a published block-level point of 5. The record gives no path.
One flight, at its published block

Hour by hour

Times not published in this record.

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other80%
  2. Traffic and crashes20%

Flights, in order

5 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
—Traffic and crashes48 min4d029da6
—Other10 min55b2b50b
—Other11 min888eb4f0
—Other15 minf4542194
—Other18 minfceca24d

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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