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  2. New Mexico
  3. Las Cruces
  4. May 2026
  5. 7

Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Thursday 7 May 2026

20 drone flights from Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

20

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

6:27 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:37 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 20 times on Thursday 7 May 2026, the first at 6:27 am and the last at 9:37 pm MDT, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 20. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, MDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other65%
  2. Call for service15%
  3. Not stated15%
  4. Search5%

Flights, in order

20 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
6:27 amCall for service13 minLCPD-260
7:53 amOther13 minLCPD-260
8:30 amOther24 minLCPD-260
8:48 amOther28 minLCPD-260
9:18 amOther12 minLCPD-260
9:46 amOther17 minLCPD-260
10:17 amOther17 minLCPD-260
10:39 amCall for service13 minLCPD-260
11:03 amOther16 minLCPD-260
12:08 pmCall for service18 minLCPD-260
12:42 pmOther6 minLCPD-260
12:52 pmOther9 minLCPD-260
1:29 pmOther8 minLCPD-260
3:27 pmOther29 minLCPD-260
3:49 pmOther9 minLCPD-260
5:02 pmOther10 minLCPD-260
6:19 pmNot stated19 minLCPD-260
7:16 pmNot stated30 minLCPD-260
7:26 pmNot stated25 minLCPD-260
9:37 pmSearch11 minLCPD-260

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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