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Detroit, Michigan · one day

Thursday 25 April 2024

35 drone flights from Detroit Fire Department's published record.

35

drone flights over Detroit that day.

11:54 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:59 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Detroit police drones flew 35 times on Thursday 25 April 2024, the first at 11:54 am and the last at 8:59 pm EDT, by Detroit Fire Department's published record.

35 drawable flights of 35. 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. Patrol support100%

Flights, in order

35 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
11:54 amPatrol support1 min 26 sb4d7e647
11:56 amPatrol support5 min79a0d5e5
12:07 pmPatrol support5 min53e18ede
12:23 pmPatrol support27 min8e5054f0
12:50 pmPatrol support9 minbe106703
12:55 pmPatrol support25 min03840d39
1:03 pmPatrol support7 min8d0383b6
1:19 pmPatrol support4 mina8f24d45
1:21 pmPatrol support6 minba9b9d88
1:33 pmPatrol support31 min20f7fd83
1:47 pmPatrol support19 min026ec731
2:23 pmPatrol support1 min 43 s705a2adf
2:39 pmPatrol support27 min9c4ec3f0
2:53 pmPatrol support11 min86dfcc59
3:12 pmPatrol support32 minc6565fbb
3:12 pmPatrol support13 minaef2da23
3:48 pmPatrol support2 min1c550662
3:53 pmPatrol support49 s739a90c7
3:55 pmPatrol support47 s0d96e6e6
4:41 pmPatrol support27 min8b1bfc1a
4:47 pmPatrol support20 minb13df494
5:14 pmPatrol support29 min73a0dd1a
5:20 pmPatrol support6 minebe734a4
5:35 pmPatrol support12 minb99c1a29
5:48 pmPatrol support9 min408dc83e
5:54 pmPatrol support23 min0fce3371
7:01 pmPatrol support28 min0cbc5549
7:18 pmPatrol support7 min8f572b38
7:33 pmPatrol support30 min95782165
7:35 pmPatrol support19 minb13e20e4
8:04 pmPatrol support8 min73c54494
8:13 pmPatrol support19 minfff65d20
8:24 pmPatrol support28 mince476f56
8:35 pmPatrol support28 min48fc230e
8:59 pmPatrol support19 mine5b45122

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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