4
drone flights crossed Washington.
4
of them in July 2026.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Washington 4 times between 14 July 2026 and 31 July 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 July 2026.
1 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
25% 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 4 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, July 2026
| Date | Takeoff (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 14 Jul 2026 | 1:53 pm | Other | 13 min | 5a49fd32 |
| Wed 15 Jul 2026 | 12:08 am | Call for service | 14 min | b9580263 |
| Tue 21 Jul 2026 | 3:49 pm | Events | 8 min | caf9c7be |
| Fri 31 Jul 2026 | 9:16 pm | Call for service | 13 min | c7f5a66a |
All 4 flights in July 2026. 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. "Washington" 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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