CityDroneWatch
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  4. September 2025
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San Francisco, California · one day

Sunday 21 September 2025

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

22

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 22 times on Sunday 21 September 2025, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

22 flights with a published block-level point of 22. 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 service91%
  2. Other9%

Flights, in order

22 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 service23 min03360ca9
—Call for service12 min0602643b
—Call for service13 min09e6112e
—Other15 min0ea281e0
—Call for service17 min101d7121
—Call for service8 min130c2268
—Call for service19 min18760b9d
—Call for service17 min1baa7900
—Call for service23 min3da0c1b3
—Call for service13 min45ff197b
—Call for service13 min4e320e7b
—Call for service17 min52a2555b
—Call for service16 min778e39f7
—Call for service20 min7d0a954d
—Other15 min90d011b7
—Call for service12 min9110484c
—Call for service17 min9a2d9d4f
—Call for service16 minbc47d6ef
—Call for service22 minbdd20eef
—Call for service12 mind3f4604f
—Call for service13 mind7420caf
—Call for service17 minf7d5982d

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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