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San Francisco, California · one day

Thursday 20 February 2025

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

10

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 10 times on Thursday 20 February 2025, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

8 flights with a published block-level point of 10. 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. Call for service20%

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 (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
—Other20 min29e40ca7
—Other9 min2e12676c
—Call for service9 min4b98e482
—Other7 min597b5da0
—Call for service11 min73cd59b7
—Other8 min989e8ff3
—Other90 min99115256
—Other15 mina1016f76
—Other7 minbbc4459a
—Other7 minf3643d30

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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