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San Francisco, California · one day

Thursday 23 October 2025

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

17

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 17 times on Thursday 23 October 2025, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

14 flights with a published block-level point of 17. 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

17 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 service13 min038a3019
—Call for service27 min0b37558f
—Call for service13 min2d8077b0
—Call for service10 min414d8cc0
—Call for service14 min4aa85919
—Call for service25 min76a240a8
—Call for service13 min926c509b
—Call for service24 min97a1df67
—Call for service8 min99d716a4
—Call for service13 mina517abb3
—Call for service22 minb2b9fa46
—Call for service8 minb6df1039
—Call for service18 minbbfac8e5
—Other3 mineb78bea4
—Call for service22 minf2aa91ef
—Call for service25 minfbda5df8
—Call for service17 minfedb800c

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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