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Saint Paul, Minnesota

West Side, July 2026

A neighborhood page. 12 of the 2,254 flights in St. Paul Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

12

drone flights crossed West Side.

12

of them in July 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed West Side 12 times between 1 July 2026 and 31 July 2026, by St. Paul Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 July 2026.

12 of the 12 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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.
West SideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

42% 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 12 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service75%
  2. Not stated25%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Jul 202611:02 pmNot stated14 min0a749bac
Wed 1 Jul 202611:23 pmNot stated16 minc9a31f38
Wed 8 Jul 20269:43 pmCall for service12 minc30b3f6a
Thu 9 Jul 20268:53 pmCall for service19 min10c7ac9b
Sat 11 Jul 20269:02 pmNot stated16 min21a0285e
Sun 12 Jul 202612:26 amCall for service6 min23d992b7
Mon 13 Jul 202612:05 amCall for service11 minad02db3a
Wed 22 Jul 20264:49 pmCall for service10 min02790aba
Sun 26 Jul 20268:31 amCall for service15 minf0612fc1
Wed 29 Jul 202611:49 pmCall for service13 minccde1e12
Fri 31 Jul 202611:45 amCall for service12 minf1273682
Fri 31 Jul 20263:42 pmCall for service6 min7472276c

All 12 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. "West Side" 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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