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Hempstead, New York · one day

Tuesday 6 October 2026

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

19

drone flights over Hempstead that day.

7:16 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:35 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Hempstead police drones flew 19 times on Tuesday 6 October 2026, the first at 7:16 am and the last at 11:35 pm EDT, by Hempstead Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 19. 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 stated79%
  2. Call for service11%
  3. Other11%

Flights, in order

19 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
7:16 amNot stated3 minHEMPSTEA
7:51 amNot stated8 minHEMPSTEA
9:06 amCall for service7 minHEMPSTEA
10:58 amNot stated12 minHEMPSTEA
12:46 pmNot stated25 minHEMPSTEA
1:16 pmNot stated29 minHEMPSTEA
1:47 pmNot stated11 minHEMPSTEA
2:05 pmNot stated12 minHEMPSTEA
2:36 pmNot stated1 min 30 sHEMPSTEA
4:31 pmNot stated14 minHEMPSTEA
6:13 pmNot stated10 minHEMPSTEA
6:47 pmOther13 minHEMPSTEA
7:08 pmCall for service13 minHEMPSTEA
9:07 pmOther20 minHEMPSTEA
9:31 pmNot stated13 minHEMPSTEA
9:55 pmNot stated16 minHEMPSTEA
10:39 pmNot stated19 minHEMPSTEA
11:14 pmNot stated16 minHEMPSTEA
11:35 pmNot stated15 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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