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Brooklyn Park, Minnesota

Birch GroveBoundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 143 of the 2,564 flights in Brooklyn Park Police Department's record crossed this area.

143

drone flights crossed Birch Grove.

12

of them in October 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Birch Grove 143 times between 20 January 2026 and 23 October 2026, by Brooklyn Park Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 23 October 2026.

12 of the 12 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Birch GroveOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

33 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

26% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Birch Grove, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 3
  2. 3
  3. 7
  4. 21
  5. 10
  6. 33
  7. 19
  8. 25
  9. 10
  10. 12
Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 143 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service73%
  2. Not stated15%
  3. Search7%
  4. Training and testing3%
  5. Other1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Oct 20268:25 pmCall for service11 mindc4ca6f6
Wed 7 Oct 20267:57 pmNot stated18 mine0e35db3
Wed 7 Oct 20268:13 pmNot stated19 min694f2782
Wed 7 Oct 20268:28 pmNot stated15 min26bf5690
Wed 7 Oct 20268:57 pmNot stated6 min843f0350
Wed 7 Oct 20269:02 pmNot stated14 mincce7bb71
Sat 10 Oct 202610:05 pmCall for service15 min653fdb34
Mon 12 Oct 202611:38 pmCall for service11 minb49c81d7
Mon 19 Oct 20263:20 pmCall for service16 minf28919c0
Mon 19 Oct 20263:59 pmCall for service18 min8e492b70
Thu 22 Oct 20263:59 amCall for service15 min98c93add
Fri 23 Oct 20268:17 amCall for service17 minc0887ac3

All 12 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Birch Grove" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Brooklyn Park (City Neighborhoods), licence recorded as "City of Brooklyn Park map disclaimer (general reference only; no license stated)", in the place layer file for Brooklyn Park. Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication: ADR 0003 bars paging a place whose licence is unknown or share-alike; this page exists only in the local demo.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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