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Rochester, Minnesota

East Side, October 2025

A neighborhood page. 65 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

65

drone flights crossed East Side.

65

of them in October 2025.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed East Side 65 times between 2 October 2025 and 30 October 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2025.

65 of the 65 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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

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

34% 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 65 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service54%
  2. Training and testing15%
  3. Other14%
  4. Events11%
  5. Traffic and crashes3%
  6. Search3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 2 Oct 20251:16 pmCall for service11 min24e85074
Thu 2 Oct 20255:10 pmCall for service8 min0bd83070
Thu 2 Oct 20256:22 pmCall for service4 min2bf2d9bb
Thu 2 Oct 20257:28 pmTraffic and crashes15 min28602167
Thu 2 Oct 20258:02 pmCall for service16 min0d67d3d4
Thu 2 Oct 202510:08 pmOther8 minca8da9e1
Thu 2 Oct 202510:58 pmCall for service11 min71dc5653
Fri 3 Oct 20258:48 pmCall for service16 mina76aab07
Fri 3 Oct 202510:13 pmOther7 min70c3369a
Sat 4 Oct 20252:11 amCall for service4 min0b1ed7ec
Sun 5 Oct 20259:43 amCall for service13 min7c06785d
Mon 6 Oct 20251:18 pmTraining and testing6 min74c4ec8a
Mon 6 Oct 20255:32 pmCall for service12 mind2528173
Tue 7 Oct 20259:02 amTraffic and crashes14 minc7ae549d
Tue 7 Oct 202510:12 amTraining and testing5 min99b15b8e
Wed 8 Oct 20258:32 amCall for service11 minfcde9c05
Thu 9 Oct 20252:32 pmCall for service18 minc4f63a30
Thu 9 Oct 20258:05 pmOther14 min8491f9f7
Thu 9 Oct 202510:41 pmOther3 min297f0771
Fri 10 Oct 20258:39 amTraining and testing4 mind3e0439e
Fri 10 Oct 20254:51 pmEvents20 min01230795
Fri 10 Oct 20255:56 pmCall for service21 mine64f0f68
Fri 10 Oct 20257:23 pmEvents15 min771de4a2
Fri 10 Oct 20258:31 pmOther9 minc334934c
Fri 10 Oct 20259:09 pmSearch5 min0c76d670
Sat 11 Oct 20251:21 amEvents8 min81727fcb
Sat 11 Oct 20258:12 pmCall for service8 min44adf37b
Sat 11 Oct 20258:46 pmOther11 min8084aff5
Sat 11 Oct 202510:29 pmEvents10 minf07f7b7e
Sun 12 Oct 20252:00 amCall for service16 min694d9b20
Sun 12 Oct 202510:45 pmCall for service15 min78df99a3
Mon 13 Oct 202510:09 pmCall for service18 minabca30e6
Tue 14 Oct 20251:45 amOther16 min0762470d
Tue 14 Oct 20252:17 pmTraining and testing9 minc3c4e669
Tue 14 Oct 20252:35 pmTraining and testing9 minf04ee7d8
Tue 14 Oct 20253:09 pmEvents7 mind72700f1
Thu 16 Oct 20258:48 pmSearch11 mina90b1bed
Fri 17 Oct 20253:06 amCall for service13 min67320af7
Fri 17 Oct 20256:28 pmCall for service15 minb5e32e89
Sat 18 Oct 20256:04 pmCall for service10 min08b03f5f
Sat 18 Oct 202510:56 pmEvents5 minfb559750
Mon 20 Oct 20252:10 amCall for service13 min1c25da80
Mon 20 Oct 20257:09 pmCall for service10 minc0fa9fde
Mon 20 Oct 202510:15 pmOther13 minb619b55c
Tue 21 Oct 20252:16 amCall for service13 min8eab3553
Wed 22 Oct 20259:44 amTraining and testing5 min47b12cff
Wed 22 Oct 20251:12 pmOther11 mina91ef9d4
Fri 24 Oct 20258:51 pmCall for service14 min652511bf
Fri 24 Oct 202510:29 pmCall for service19 min67e0b989
Fri 24 Oct 202511:23 pmCall for service19 mincd4037e5
Sat 25 Oct 202512:02 amCall for service13 min961e7f5a
Sat 25 Oct 20258:14 pmCall for service11 min14508ac6
Sat 25 Oct 20259:56 pmCall for service16 min175a699d
Sat 25 Oct 202510:49 pmCall for service10 minfee81d97
Mon 27 Oct 202511:49 pmCall for service7 min1c14e3f9
Tue 28 Oct 20259:17 amCall for service16 min38cf85a4
Tue 28 Oct 20257:42 pmCall for service15 min8cd36b3f
Tue 28 Oct 202510:46 pmCall for service7 min64440b5e
Wed 29 Oct 20251:38 pmTraining and testing7 min84277854
Wed 29 Oct 20256:36 pmCall for service11 min46725b7d
Wed 29 Oct 20257:48 pmEvents15 mina5539227
Thu 30 Oct 20252:10 pmTraining and testing2 mina44ce6fb
Thu 30 Oct 20252:18 pmTraining and testing1 min 20 s61e67e82
Thu 30 Oct 20252:25 pmTraining and testing1 min 21 sff5acc62
Thu 30 Oct 20255:50 pmCall for service12 minc0d37951

All 65 flights in October 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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