drone flights over Rochester that day.

12:25 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:47 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 13 times on Tuesday 23 December 2025, the first at 12:25 am and the last at 11:47 pm CST, by Rochester Police 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, CST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service62%
Events23%
Training and testing15%

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 (CST)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:25 am	Call for service	11 min	`c4f7496a`
12:48 am	Events	19 min	`18df1802`
2:29 am	Call for service	15 min	`0f6bd267`
10:24 am	Call for service	11 min	`e8ee0e19`
6:25 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`f6ce5dd4`
6:31 pm	Training and testing	3 min	`c5efb528`
7:26 pm	Events	16 min	`c23ccba5`
8:12 pm	Events	11 min	`3a9a1e37`
9:42 pm	Call for service	12 min	`18fa9b2d`
10:04 pm	Call for service	6 min	`b9cb4913`
10:15 pm	Call for service	7 min	`55a0860c`
10:54 pm	Call for service	18 min	`126b2409`
11:47 pm	Call for service	11 min	`698e9206`

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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