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Hempstead, New York · one day

Saturday 4 July 2026

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

14

drone flights over Hempstead that day.

11:15 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:31 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hempstead police drones flew 14 times on Saturday 4 July 2026, the first at 11:15 am and the last at 5:31 pm EDT, by Hempstead Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated43%
  2. Other36%
  3. Call for service21%

Flights, in order

14 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
11:15 amOther17 minHEMPSTEA
11:37 amCall for service22 minHEMPSTEA
12:13 pmOther18 minHEMPSTEA
12:50 pmNot stated15 minHEMPSTEA
1:15 pmNot stated18 minHEMPSTEA
1:45 pmOther14 minHEMPSTEA
2:12 pmNot stated15 minHEMPSTEA
2:36 pmOther15 minHEMPSTEA
3:22 pmOther22 minHEMPSTEA
3:54 pmCall for service18 minHEMPSTEA
4:18 pmNot stated16 minHEMPSTEA
4:44 pmNot stated16 minHEMPSTEA
5:07 pmCall for service17 minHEMPSTEA
5:31 pmNot stated18 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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