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  4. May 2026
  5. 12

South Bend, Indiana · one day

Tuesday 12 May 2026

26 drone flights from South Bend Police Department's published record.

26

drone flights over South Bend that day.

12:16 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:48 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 26 times on Tuesday 12 May 2026, the first at 12:16 am and the last at 11:48 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. 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, EDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other42%
  2. Call for service38%
  3. Not stated19%

Flights, in order

26 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 (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:16 amCall for service11 minSBPD-260
1:44 amCall for service25 minSBPD-260
2:12 amCall for service25 minSBPD-260
2:40 amCall for service26 minSBPD-260
3:09 amCall for service27 minSBPD-260
3:39 amCall for service27 minSBPD-260
10:39 amOther21 minSBPD-260
11:06 amNot stated6 minSBPD-260
11:27 amNot stated6 minSBPD-260
11:38 amNot stated2 minSBPD-260
1:46 pmCall for service15 minSBPD-260
2:20 pmOther11 minSBPD-260
2:43 pmOther12 minSBPD-260
3:51 pmOther8 minSBPD-260
4:23 pmCall for service10 minSBPD-260
4:42 pmOther12 minSBPD-260
5:16 pmCall for service16 minSBPD-260
5:39 pmOther12 minSBPD-260
6:30 pmOther16 minSBPD-260
6:49 pmOther7 minSBPD-260
7:16 pmOther14 minSBPD-260
8:38 pmCall for service17 minSBPD-260
10:21 pmOther26 minSBPD-260
11:22 pmNot stated3 minSBPD-260
11:28 pmOther15 minSBPD-260
11:48 pmNot stated5 minSBPD-260

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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