drone flights over Detroit that day.

10:52 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:00 pm.

30 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Detroit police drones flew 13 times on Thursday 10 October 2024, the first at 10:52 am and the last at 4:00 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.

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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
10:52 am	Patrol support	21 s	`2611536f`
11:00 am	Patrol support	30 min	`48b680b4`
11:29 am	Patrol support	25 min	`7dbbd8aa`
11:51 am	Patrol support	33 min	`fbe88e60`
12:24 pm	Patrol support	27 min	`11e9f8e1`
12:49 pm	Patrol support	1 min 16 s	`97321364`
12:52 pm	Patrol support	29 min	`79afc14f`
1:24 pm	Patrol support	30 min	`aaf705c6`
1:54 pm	Patrol support	32 min	`4f8ff80f`
2:29 pm	Patrol support	31 min	`bf981875`
2:44 pm	Patrol support	31 min	`1ba1d676`
3:04 pm	Patrol support	29 min	`2d3a1fdd`
4:00 pm	Patrol support	30 min	`9e49ce24`

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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