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Saint Paul, Minnesota

West Side

A neighborhood page. 70 of the 2,218 flights in St. Paul Police Department's record crossed this area.

70

drone flights crossed West Side.

16

of them in October 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed West Side 70 times between 1 June 2026 and 28 October 2026, by St. Paul Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 October 2026.

16 of the 16 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, minus its first and last 200 m.
West SideOne flight; takeoff and landing removed

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

31% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights that crossed West Side, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 18
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. 11
  5. 16
Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 70 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service67%
  2. Not stated26%
  3. Search4%
  4. Training and testing1%
  5. Other1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 202612:28 amCall for service6 min4dd59b9b
Tue 6 Oct 202610:17 pmCall for service10 min492dde03
Sun 11 Oct 20267:15 pmCall for service17 mind0e09de0
Mon 12 Oct 20261:57 pmCall for service6 min8afd424f
Wed 14 Oct 20262:32 pmTraining and testing8 min366ed10b
Sat 17 Oct 20266:23 pmCall for service18 min9a0bcb28
Sun 18 Oct 202611:44 amCall for service18 min65850bf5
Mon 19 Oct 20266:35 pmOther16 minff2e0981
Wed 21 Oct 20265:45 pmCall for service11 min8c3fdc28
Wed 21 Oct 202610:50 pmCall for service20 min4ef9af00
Thu 22 Oct 202611:16 pmCall for service10 minbfad4940
Sat 24 Oct 202610:03 pmCall for service15 mine8942969
Sun 25 Oct 20268:51 pmCall for service15 minbfa9dbff
Sun 25 Oct 20269:19 pmCall for service14 mine2394c30
Sun 25 Oct 202611:29 pmCall for service11 min6ba71764
Wed 28 Oct 202612:52 amCall for service6 min1bdacfe2

All 16 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "West Side" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Saint Paul (District Councils / Planning Districts), licence recorded as "Public Domain", in the place layer file for Saint Paul.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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