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  4. May 2026
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San Francisco, California · one day

Friday 22 May 2026

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

25

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 25 times on Friday 22 May 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

25 flights with a published block-level point of 25. 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 service76%
  2. Other24%

Flights, in order

25 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 service14 min06452f5d
—Call for service5 min0bb41daf
—Call for service19 min0d0f1e3f
—Call for service10 min1499aa2e
—Call for service8 min1f092cb6
—Call for service11 min288d4f79
—Other3 min35bc6c6e
—Call for service15 min3b21925a
—Call for service20 min3e15d7ad
—Other2 min4544e228
—Call for service7 min5e216af9
—Call for service2 min760801fb
—Call for service11 min79ff141a
—Other22 min985e572c
—Call for service18 mina255777c
—Call for service24 mina7cb3c5d
—Other1 min 00 sa88a674d
—Call for service17 minb651f0a2
—Call for service9 minba8669df
—Other2 minc27f77fc
—Call for service15 mindda21e59
—Other16 minf3b85caa
—Call for service17 minf8baeb88
—Call for service14 minfe81f4c9
—Call for service17 minff18f520

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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