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Rochester, Minnesota

East Side, September 2025

A neighborhood page. 36 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2025.

36

drone flights crossed East Side.

36

of them in September 2025.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed East Side 36 times between 9 September 2025 and 30 September 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2025.

36 of the 36 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 2025. 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.
East SideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

14% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

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

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 36 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service50%
  2. Training and testing36%
  3. Events6%
  4. Other6%
  5. Search3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 9 Sep 20253:08 pmTraining and testing4 mind384f2e1
Fri 12 Sep 202510:02 amTraining and testing15 mina0c1b791
Fri 12 Sep 202512:06 pmTraining and testing2 mina0003ec6
Fri 12 Sep 202512:55 pmTraining and testing16 mincec8230e
Thu 18 Sep 20251:44 pmEvents11 min573c3844
Fri 19 Sep 202512:25 pmCall for service12 min50592fdd
Fri 19 Sep 20252:02 pmEvents14 minbefb404b
Fri 19 Sep 20253:54 pmCall for service18 min7492a7f3
Fri 19 Sep 20258:49 pmCall for service16 min529ac354
Sat 20 Sep 202511:02 pmOther14 min611be1d7
Sun 21 Sep 20252:05 amCall for service9 minb8af0be6
Mon 22 Sep 202511:58 amOther18 minf34fd15d
Mon 22 Sep 20251:46 pmTraining and testing21 mindc2f6d1c
Mon 22 Sep 20252:38 pmTraining and testing16 min4c8c87a2
Wed 24 Sep 20251:29 pmSearch17 min401442f3
Wed 24 Sep 20252:03 pmTraining and testing9 minbbc9a5ee
Wed 24 Sep 20258:31 pmCall for service6 min3f98bbf3
Wed 24 Sep 20259:40 pmCall for service6 min54e1e2f2
Wed 24 Sep 20259:58 pmCall for service12 minf8a283fc
Thu 25 Sep 202511:06 amTraining and testing4 min3c90ecea
Thu 25 Sep 20251:38 pmCall for service12 min7c3d2be6
Thu 25 Sep 20255:01 pmCall for service8 min372398e0
Thu 25 Sep 20255:21 pmTraining and testing8 min58404a1a
Fri 26 Sep 20251:31 pmTraining and testing11 min4846a6de
Fri 26 Sep 20252:06 pmTraining and testing15 min86c114ee
Fri 26 Sep 20252:53 pmTraining and testing15 minc937072d
Fri 26 Sep 20253:49 pmCall for service9 min71f44cdf
Fri 26 Sep 20255:51 pmCall for service8 min932dbf4f
Sat 27 Sep 20255:05 pmCall for service21 min14424c97
Sat 27 Sep 20258:55 pmCall for service9 min8d5fcfaa
Sat 27 Sep 202510:08 pmCall for service8 mindd30fe45
Sun 28 Sep 202512:32 amCall for service2 min66cb4723
Sun 28 Sep 20251:27 amCall for service13 min253b61de
Mon 29 Sep 20253:27 pmCall for service20 minc10cc065
Tue 30 Sep 20258:20 amCall for service9 min309f195e
Tue 30 Sep 202511:52 amTraining and testing4 minc44aa40f

All 36 flights in September 2025. 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, 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.
  • Boundary. "East Side" is a neighborhood polygon from Olmsted County GIS (Neighborhood Associations), licence "NOASSERTION". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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