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San Francisco, California · one day

Saturday 17 May 2025

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

9

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 9 times on Saturday 17 May 2025, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

7 flights with a published block-level point of 9. 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. Other67%
  2. Call for service33%

Flights, in order

9 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 min05f5338f
—Other10 min1d49067e
—Other18 min2dc20200
—Call for service10 min2f3b704c
—Call for service11 min44b8e46a
—Other30 min6a2ea2f0
—Other6 min812c1a13
—Other18 minbdfd9d9e
—Other19 minea94840b

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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