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Hempstead, New York · one day

Friday 21 August 2026

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

14

drone flights over Hempstead that day.

10:01 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:07 pm.

23 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hempstead police drones flew 14 times on Friday 21 August 2026, the first at 10:01 am and the last at 6:07 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 stated86%
  2. Other7%
  3. Call for service7%

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
10:01 amOther23 minHEMPSTEA
10:27 amNot stated29 minHEMPSTEA
10:51 amNot stated10 minHEMPSTEA
11:40 amNot stated27 minHEMPSTEA
12:02 pmNot stated30 minHEMPSTEA
12:27 pmNot stated25 minHEMPSTEA
12:56 pmNot stated23 minHEMPSTEA
1:23 pmNot stated28 minHEMPSTEA
1:53 pmNot stated23 minHEMPSTEA
2:13 pmNot stated23 minHEMPSTEA
3:40 pmNot stated22 minHEMPSTEA
4:44 pmNot stated8 minHEMPSTEA
5:17 pmNot stated4 minHEMPSTEA
6:07 pmCall for service6 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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