drone flights over Detroit that day.

11:07 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:47 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Detroit police drones flew 13 times on Tuesday 8 October 2024, the first at 11:07 am and the last at 2:47 pm EDT, by Detroit Fire Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Patrol support100%

Flights, in order

13 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
11:07 am	Patrol support	4 min	`10f90764`
11:13 am	Patrol support	3 min	`789d4fef`
11:19 am	Patrol support	2 min	`e8d32653`
11:25 am	Patrol support	52 s	`89e47caa`
11:44 am	Patrol support	10 min	`1e01f295`
12:07 pm	Patrol support	14 min	`0b8ae8df`
12:29 pm	Patrol support	1 min 57 s	`2ef44bf2`
12:33 pm	Patrol support	29 min	`1df6859f`
1:04 pm	Patrol support	30 min	`ae563bfd`
1:37 pm	Patrol support	31 min	`15dfdb3b`
2:10 pm	Patrol support	1 min 34 s	`c6b48d29`
2:13 pm	Patrol support	31 min	`51211856`
2:47 pm	Patrol support	14 min	`828ffc1a`

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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