drone flights over Laredo that day.

12:08 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:06 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Laredo police drones flew 17 times on Saturday 12 September 2026, the first at 12:08 am and the last at 11:06 pm CDT, by Laredo Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service53%
Patrol support29%
Traffic and crashes12%
Other6%

Flights, in order

17 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 (CDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:08 am	Call for service	12 min	`91dec6f7`
1:52 am	Patrol support	13 min	`ab924d94`
2:35 am	Traffic and crashes	11 min	`f0d8ae3c`
7:25 am	Call for service	19 min	`0ce55e92`
8:10 am	Call for service	13 min	`13e7a88a`
10:00 am	Call for service	12 min	`ec89db85`
12:01 pm	Call for service	6 min	`3dcafccd`
1:20 pm	Call for service	9 min	`4824aa89`
1:34 pm	Other	7 min	`afa5625d`
2:13 pm	Call for service	15 min	`15a99a92`
2:39 pm	Call for service	9 min	`9d3d4ba3`
3:52 pm	Call for service	19 min	`b6af972c`
6:53 pm	Patrol support	7 min	`eb2c82ec`
7:16 pm	Patrol support	13 min	`85c5539d`
8:10 pm	Patrol support	10 min	`e810352a`
8:31 pm	Traffic and crashes	13 min	`774a4bdd`
11:06 pm	Patrol support	6 min	`ee41d586`

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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