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San Francisco, California · one day

Tuesday 19 May 2026

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

28

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 28 times on Tuesday 19 May 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

28 flights with a published block-level point of 28. 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 service68%
  2. Other32%

Flights, in order

28 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 min0574113d
—Other16 min0cc61910
—Call for service12 min15090448
—Other1 min 00 s24afd41e
—Call for service8 min2b77b03d
—Call for service18 min2baa44c0
—Call for service9 min38881916
—Other5 min3b98bc1e
—Call for service9 min474efe2e
—Call for service22 min480bfc8f
—Call for service19 min71e2e4ee
—Call for service23 min72f119f5
—Call for service10 min764447a3
—Call for service17 min837a310a
—Call for service19 min8382a477
—Call for service27 mina2ec55b3
—Other3 minbe74834b
—Call for service5 minc0a0b42e
—Other1 min 00 sc0e41a6b
—Call for service15 minc328b19c
—Call for service12 mind1350ddd
—Other1 min 00 sd68c60a0
—Call for service19 mind83fe5cb
—Other7 mindae801c4
—Call for service12 mine33b09cf
—Other15 minf880d5a7
—Call for service11 minf8b4aeb4
—Call for service16 minff0c4022

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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