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Hempstead, New York · one day

Monday 20 April 2026

9 drone flights from Hempstead Police Department's published record.

9

drone flights over Hempstead that day.

10:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:30 pm.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hempstead police drones flew 9 times on Monday 20 April 2026, the first at 10:06 am and the last at 3:30 pm EDT, by Hempstead Police Department's published record.

9 drawable flights of 9. 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, EDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated89%
  2. Other11%

Flights, in order

9 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 (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
10:06 amNot stated16 minHEMPSTEA
10:33 amNot stated22 minHEMPSTEA
11:04 amNot stated24 minHEMPSTEA
11:45 amNot stated23 minHEMPSTEA
1:29 pmNot stated18 minHEMPSTEA
1:50 pmOther19 minHEMPSTEA
2:22 pmNot stated24 minHEMPSTEA
3:01 pmNot stated15 minHEMPSTEA
3:30 pmNot stated13 minHEMPSTEA

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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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