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San Francisco, California · one day

Thursday 25 September 2025

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

12

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 12 times on Thursday 25 September 2025, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

12 flights with a published block-level point of 12. 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 service92%
  2. Other8%

Flights, in order

12 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 service11 min16fe1f7a
—Call for service8 min338e333a
—Call for service9 min48b2f25c
—Call for service30 min5ef90312
—Call for service4 min69d06929
—Call for service17 min6aec2aab
—Call for service30 min70fe60f4
—Call for service30 min87ee6b9d
—Call for service25 min9adfddbd
—Call for service11 mina354b3b5
—Call for service19 minb7585310
—Other12 minc0c119a8

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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