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San Francisco, California · one day

Thursday 16 October 2025

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

35

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 35 times on Thursday 16 October 2025, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

27 flights with a published block-level point of 35. 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 service94%
  2. Other6%

Flights, in order

35 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 service15 min02bce738
—Call for service22 min06eccfe4
—Other10 min119307f5
—Call for service18 min13a5ab8f
—Call for service27 min183ecf05
—Call for service13 min19ca6a25
—Call for service13 min280c4b04
—Call for service16 min2831d405
—Call for service19 min3a05a2e5
—Call for service17 min3ddd7e59
—Call for service19 min43ef9b7d
—Call for service9 min467f63b1
—Call for service28 min528d898b
—Call for service22 min53476b04
—Call for service9 min5709331d
—Call for service4 min636b0a5e
—Call for service20 min6d893c7b
—Call for service20 min76ae1a37
—Call for service20 min7dcd41d8
—Call for service13 min81390634
—Call for service14 min8ebba56d
—Call for service21 min91d1e39f
—Call for service15 min9d0fc164
—Call for service13 min9daae8eb
—Call for service16 mina0bf4bb2
—Call for service26 mina23576e9
—Call for service10 mina663ca60
—Call for service20 minb0fc3272
—Other25 minbf57a913
—Call for service13 minc71f8e2c
—Call for service13 mind48ea4fe
—Call for service4 mine5325adf
—Call for service19 minf896c83c
—Call for service25 minf936dd08
—Call for service20 minfc7fd907

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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