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San Francisco, California · one day

Saturday 20 September 2025

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

27

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 27 times on Saturday 20 September 2025, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

23 flights with a published block-level point of 27. 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 service89%
  2. Other11%

Flights, in order

27 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
—Other34 min0c2eb29b
—Call for service1 min 00 s13f137ad
—Call for service14 min1691ff0c
—Call for service10 min1986612a
—Call for service10 min1b3a08d6
—Call for service21 min2eefb178
—Call for service19 min46babfd8
—Call for service6 min4b09426d
—Call for service11 min5e2791e1
—Other22 min6fb66a3e
—Call for service17 min70bb2a0a
—Call for service11 min73c0a0a3
—Call for service11 min81ff3ac4
—Call for service12 min83005962
—Call for service10 min87d5f975
—Call for service5 min9af9db7a
—Call for service5 mina2ed5b7c
—Call for service19 mina4acadfb
—Call for service14 minac3b93e5
—Call for service24 minbb72348e
—Call for service5 minc511609d
—Call for service18 mincf21cb72
—Call for service32 mindc27e381
—Call for service21 mine7fb27ce
—Call for service18 mine827a4e9
—Other20 mine9ef7a4e
—Call for service19 minea47dd1c

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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