drone flights over Rochester that day.

8:18 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:37 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 16 times on Friday 12 September 2025, the first at 8:18 am and the last at 2:37 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing100%

Flights, in order

16 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 (CDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
8:18 am	Training and testing	16 min	`9c21845d`
8:49 am	Training and testing	12 min	`a17a3918`
10:02 am	Training and testing	15 min	`a0c1b791`
10:20 am	Training and testing	4 min	`a34fcc2a`
10:25 am	Training and testing	14 min	`a34635b2`
11:00 am	Training and testing	4 min	`03a92b08`
11:35 am	Training and testing	1 min 04 s	`892d16cf`
12:06 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`a0003ec6`
12:43 pm	Training and testing	14 min	`d95e71dd`
12:55 pm	Training and testing	16 min	`cec8230e`
1:05 pm	Training and testing	1 min 56 s	`24d28a13`
1:32 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`ccbd0d1a`
1:48 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`3d7e347a`
2:09 pm	Training and testing	15 min	`2f689e54`
2:11 pm	Training and testing	12 min	`0a5959b8`
2:37 pm	Training and testing	17 min	`1df0e157`

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.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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