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Macalester - Groveland

A neighborhood page. 43 of the 2,254 flights in St. Paul Police Department's record crossed this area.

43

drone flights crossed Macalester - Groveland.

8

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Macalester - Groveland 43 times between 1 June 2026 and 26 October 2026, by St. Paul Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 26 October 2026.

8 of the 8 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. 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.
Macalester - GrovelandOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

30% 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.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Macalester - Groveland, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Jun 2026: 11 flights. 11
  2. Jul 2026: 11 flights. 11
  3. Aug 2026: 5 flights. 5
  4. Sep 2026: 8 flights. 8
  5. Oct 2026: 8 flights. 8
Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The hatched bar is the current month, still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 43 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service70%
  2. Not stated28%
  3. Search2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 3 Oct 20262:23 amCall for service11 min28f21af0
Sat 10 Oct 20261:13 amCall for service11 mina161acba
Sun 11 Oct 202612:32 amCall for service13 minefbe10f7
Sun 11 Oct 20268:20 amCall for service14 minb44f1ee7
Sun 11 Oct 202610:59 pmCall for service12 min8b494bdf
Mon 19 Oct 20262:13 pmCall for service15 min7c64e553
Mon 19 Oct 20266:40 pmSearch16 mina8d4182f
Mon 26 Oct 20269:52 amCall for service15 min88a9f7c9

All 8 flights in October 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. "Macalester - Groveland" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Saint Paul (District Councils / Planning Districts), licence "Public Domain".
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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