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  4. May 2026
  5. 15

South Bend, Indiana · one day

Friday 15 May 2026

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

20

drone flights over South Bend that day.

12:50 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 20 times on Friday 15 May 2026, the first at 12:50 am and the last at 11:58 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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. Other55%
  2. Not stated40%
  3. Call for service5%

Flights, in order

20 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
12:50 amNot stated18 minSBPD-260
1:13 amNot stated10 minSBPD-260
1:32 amNot stated5 minSBPD-260
10:55 amNot stated4 minSBPD-260
11:10 amOther15 minSBPD-260
11:33 amNot stated7 minSBPD-260
11:46 amOther8 minSBPD-260
12:21 pmOther21 minSBPD-260
4:08 pmOther12 minSBPD-260
5:15 pmOther19 minSBPD-260
5:41 pmOther21 minSBPD-260
6:23 pmCall for service21 minSBPD-260
6:58 pmNot stated14 minSBPD-260
7:45 pmOther20 minSBPD-260
8:28 pmOther11 minSBPD-260
9:52 pmOther16 minSBPD-260
10:43 pmNot stated15 minSBPD-260
11:05 pmOther20 minSBPD-260
11:29 pmNot stated23 minSBPD-260
11:58 pmOther20 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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