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San Francisco, California · one day

Friday 17 October 2025

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

29

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 29 times on Friday 17 October 2025, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

28 flights with a published block-level point of 29. 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 service93%
  2. Other7%

Flights, in order

29 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 service25 min01f5c14a
—Call for service18 min0da8b21d
—Call for service20 min0df9d867
—Call for service15 min1ef59bb5
—Call for service11 min242a5943
—Call for service20 min2cc0bda4
—Call for service27 min3183095b
—Call for service13 min343af9a0
—Call for service12 min3651e6d6
—Call for service17 min41ec53bb
—Call for service19 min42c2db53
—Call for service16 min4400cb90
—Call for service11 min53bcd85f
—Call for service21 min5fa64a7d
—Call for service18 min681ed437
—Other2 min6df37532
—Call for service14 min85845c16
—Call for service21 min86fbda89
—Call for service19 min8c5f4683
—Call for service26 min8cab7833
—Other17 min998f9061
—Call for service26 min9c6012a3
—Call for service14 mina68cd4f3
—Call for service24 minb00526a0
—Call for service14 minbbd7bbd9
—Call for service15 minc35a1f9c
—Call for service18 minc3e3c2fb
—Call for service18 mine143f119
—Call for service20 mine48adf28

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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