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

Sunday 28 September 2025

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

16

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 16 times on Sunday 28 September 2025, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

16 flights with a published block-level point of 16. 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 service69%
  2. Other31%

Flights, in order

16 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
—Other5 min013fb6e3
—Call for service8 min2b56bafe
—Call for service21 min4272008a
—Call for service47 min61ae503e
—Other10 min65c594b8
—Call for service19 min79332e76
—Call for service15 min7e760551
—Other20 min8bcb2724
—Call for service12 min9b0e5961
—Call for service25 mina87a85f4
—Call for service10 minb715fba2
—Call for service18 minbb7804f4
—Call for service7 mind9475106
—Call for service20 mindff2f640
—Other9 minf216ef9f
—Other10 minf3858c41

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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