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  4. August 2025
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San Francisco, California · one day

Thursday 28 August 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.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 10 times on Thursday 28 August 2025, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

10 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. Other50%
  2. Call for service50%

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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
—Other15 min0e64c904
—Call for service7 min3497d0b0
—Other22 min476af5ed
—Other71 min4a664db2
—Call for service20 min5e46b414
—Call for service36 min93ff6209
—Call for service15 min96307ba8
—Other15 mine40544ee
—Other18 minef6d1aa5
—Call for service8 minf4a83223

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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