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Rochester, Minnesota

East Side, December 2025

A neighborhood page. 39 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

39

drone flights crossed East Side.

39

of them in December 2025.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed East Side 39 times between 2 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.

39 of the 39 drawable flights that crossed the area in December 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.

21% 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.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 39 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service67%
  2. Events15%
  3. Other5%
  4. Search5%
  5. Training and testing5%
  6. Traffic and crashes3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 2 Dec 20251:57 pmCall for service12 min18f9d530
Tue 2 Dec 20253:16 pmCall for service15 min3b8972be
Tue 2 Dec 20255:13 pmOther6 mine4a28f10
Tue 2 Dec 202510:02 pmCall for service10 min40f1b0c9
Wed 3 Dec 202510:08 pmSearch7 min4a42d07d
Wed 3 Dec 202510:51 pmCall for service6 min39735b99
Thu 4 Dec 20252:08 pmTraffic and crashes12 min8eaf7230
Thu 4 Dec 20255:05 pmSearch21 min95261c85
Thu 4 Dec 20258:06 pmCall for service9 min044aef1b
Fri 5 Dec 20258:25 pmCall for service3 min51538068
Sun 7 Dec 20253:41 pmCall for service19 min3034edfd
Wed 10 Dec 20255:25 pmCall for service6 minf0d771c4
Thu 11 Dec 202510:04 amCall for service10 min0dd3be53
Thu 11 Dec 20255:20 pmEvents9 min1ecf87a5
Thu 11 Dec 20257:57 pmEvents5 minb46c56b7
Sun 14 Dec 20255:10 pmCall for service8 min2f3dece4
Sun 14 Dec 20256:26 pmCall for service11 min029d722b
Mon 15 Dec 20252:01 pmTraining and testing12 mind4e593ef
Mon 15 Dec 20257:05 pmEvents13 min43884627
Mon 15 Dec 202510:26 pmCall for service21 minf23fd8b9
Tue 16 Dec 20259:53 amOther18 min15ce0095
Wed 17 Dec 20252:00 pmTraining and testing6 min81563723
Sun 21 Dec 20258:00 pmCall for service10 min65591e97
Sun 21 Dec 20258:38 pmCall for service1 min 36 s7eeb9059
Sun 21 Dec 20259:09 pmCall for service7 min47aa1dfa
Mon 22 Dec 20251:09 amCall for service6 minfa2decca
Mon 22 Dec 20256:32 pmCall for service8 min13a9fbaa
Mon 22 Dec 20257:43 pmCall for service13 min8c0c99fe
Tue 23 Dec 20252:29 amCall for service15 min0f6bd267
Tue 23 Dec 20257:26 pmEvents16 minc23ccba5
Tue 23 Dec 20259:42 pmCall for service12 min18fa9b2d
Tue 23 Dec 202510:04 pmCall for service6 minb9cb4913
Tue 23 Dec 202510:54 pmCall for service18 min126b2409
Wed 24 Dec 20252:20 pmCall for service8 min630ac6fa
Wed 24 Dec 20252:55 pmCall for service20 min50037337
Wed 24 Dec 20253:51 pmEvents17 mina54ecc58
Wed 24 Dec 20255:01 pmEvents7 min05d62647
Fri 26 Dec 20256:38 pmCall for service8 minec26631e
Wed 31 Dec 20255:06 pmCall for service14 min44e72372

All 39 flights in December 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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