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San Francisco, California · one day

Wednesday 7 May 2025

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

16

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 16 times on Wednesday 7 May 2025, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

14 flights with a published block-level point of 16. 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. Call for service50%
  2. Other50%

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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
—Call for service17 min0a1209ad
—Other21 min2c471ea1
—Call for service118 min2cb346ad
—Other5 min32603df6
—Call for service11 min3b5fc58c
—Call for service15 min3cb21241
—Other7 min4883e1ad
—Call for service18 min4ef3de8f
—Call for service14 min96528c38
—Call for service31 min99b193a4
—Other9 minc00ffa9d
—Call for service20 mince30a346
—Other14 mindd99e935
—Other20 minde45883d
—Other54 minf502b8c0
—Other8 minff068656

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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