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San Francisco, California · one day

Thursday 2 October 2025

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

16

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 16 times on Thursday 2 October 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 service88%
  2. Other12%

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
—Other13 min011fb377
—Call for service21 min1a75f133
—Call for service10 min207f4ffa
—Call for service7 min271507cf
—Call for service11 min3e1d586f
—Call for service12 min5be7af1a
—Call for service12 min66b4b310
—Call for service10 min6d5181b5
—Call for service25 min9bc620aa
—Call for service9 minab0dd4a0
—Call for service17 minb52287d3
—Call for service10 minc63f67ad
—Other451 minc79c874a
—Call for service9 mincbdf6144
—Call for service13 mind75fdb4a
—Call for service8 mine1d77b70

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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