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  4. August 2026
  5. 7

South Bend, Indiana · one day

Friday 7 August 2026

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

21

drone flights over South Bend that day.

1:02 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:25 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South Bend police drones flew 21 times on Friday 7 August 2026, the first at 1:02 am and the last at 11:25 pm EDT, by South Bend Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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. Not stated38%
  2. Other33%
  3. Call for service29%

Flights, in order

21 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
1:02 amCall for service15 minSBPD-260
2:23 amNot stated1 min 12 sSBPD-260
2:41 amNot stated13 minSBPD-260
11:17 amNot stated3 minSBPD-260
12:14 pmOther7 minSBPD-260
1:27 pmNot stated1 min 24 sSBPD-260
2:21 pmOther19 minSBPD-260
3:25 pmCall for service14 minSBPD-260
4:41 pmOther13 minSBPD-260
5:33 pmCall for service10 minSBPD-260
5:55 pmCall for service8 minSBPD-260
6:08 pmOther8 minSBPD-260
7:38 pmNot stated7 minSBPD-260
7:57 pmNot stated16 minSBPD-260
8:35 pmNot stated13 minSBPD-260
9:23 pmOther12 minSBPD-260
10:00 pmOther13 minSBPD-260
10:28 pmNot stated15 minSBPD-260
10:46 pmOther9 minSBPD-260
11:02 pmCall for service18 minSBPD-260
11:25 pmCall for service12 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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