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  4. July 2026
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Hempstead, New York · one day

Monday 27 July 2026

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

18

drone flights over Hempstead that day.

7:10 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:29 pm.

23 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hempstead police drones flew 18 times on Monday 27 July 2026, the first at 7:10 am and the last at 2:29 pm EDT, by Hempstead Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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 stated72%
  2. Other17%
  3. Call for service11%

Flights, in order

18 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
7:10 amNot stated22 minHEMPSTEA
7:38 amNot stated9 minHEMPSTEA
8:04 amOther22 minHEMPSTEA
8:28 amNot stated24 minHEMPSTEA
8:57 amNot stated24 minHEMPSTEA
9:23 amNot stated30 minHEMPSTEA
9:54 amNot stated6 minHEMPSTEA
10:10 amNot stated26 minHEMPSTEA
10:38 amNot stated24 minHEMPSTEA
11:06 amCall for service22 minHEMPSTEA
11:34 amCall for service17 minHEMPSTEA
12:18 pmNot stated23 minHEMPSTEA
12:45 pmOther23 minHEMPSTEA
1:09 pmOther10 minHEMPSTEA
1:27 pmNot stated10 minHEMPSTEA
1:39 pmNot stated27 minHEMPSTEA
2:07 pmNot stated8 minHEMPSTEA
2:29 pmNot stated24 minHEMPSTEA

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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