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  4. May 2026
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Denver, Colorado · one day

Friday 22 May 2026

23 drone flights from Denver Police Department's published record.

23

drone flights over Denver that day.

10:27 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:05 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Denver police drones flew 23 times on Friday 22 May 2026, the first at 10:27 am and the last at 10:05 pm MDT, by Denver Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, MDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Patrol support87%
  2. Not stated13%

Flights, in order

23 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 (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
10:27 amPatrol support8 min57836877
10:42 amPatrol support10 mindc943f6f
11:21 amPatrol support8 min567e344e
11:30 amNot stated7 mind0f96927
12:01 pmPatrol support5 mina7e59ec8
12:16 pmNot stated8 min30e9ca10
12:26 pmNot stated7 min54068196
12:34 pmPatrol support7 minfb2ddc83
12:46 pmPatrol support7 min6d38bb32
1:05 pmPatrol support12 minfed3c703
1:43 pmPatrol support8 min39211e58
1:54 pmPatrol support7 min3d4fdd8b
4:46 pmPatrol support7 min7c9819c9
5:07 pmPatrol support10 min50df009f
5:30 pmPatrol support13 min8fe650b4
6:09 pmPatrol support7 mince18329b
6:41 pmPatrol support4 min8f10fb6a
7:06 pmPatrol support19 minf0f98175
8:04 pmPatrol support10 min43f17418
8:24 pmPatrol support13 minafbfeeec
8:54 pmPatrol support16 minf0d65f5a
9:24 pmPatrol support15 min69f7e1ac
10:05 pmPatrol support13 min54fa16b3

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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