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Laredo, Texas · one day

Thursday 17 September 2026

20 drone flights from Laredo Police Department's published record.

20

drone flights over Laredo that day.

1:45 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:53 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Laredo police drones flew 20 times on Thursday 17 September 2026, the first at 1:45 am and the last at 11:53 pm CDT, by Laredo Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service55%
  2. Traffic and crashes30%
  3. Other10%
  4. Patrol support5%

Flights, in order

20 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
1:45 amCall for service13 minb32752a1
2:12 amTraffic and crashes7 min4225e694
9:08 amCall for service6 min0793bad3
9:21 amTraffic and crashes5 min9cf57376
10:57 amTraffic and crashes3 min8d2f90b1
12:08 pmCall for service13 min069d433a
1:37 pmTraffic and crashes8 minf37e35a0
1:53 pmCall for service9 min2643f017
2:48 pmPatrol support21 min9410338c
4:41 pmCall for service6 minde9e3c59
4:51 pmCall for service8 min670af414
5:10 pmCall for service16 min97d377c3
8:55 pmOther8 mincd8e390e
9:28 pmCall for service15 minddbf88aa
9:53 pmCall for service17 minacb199d5
10:10 pmTraffic and crashes6 min79418f64
10:39 pmOther18 minfad948c7
11:22 pmCall for service9 min20cd8bc9
11:32 pmCall for service12 min7348f5ee
11:53 pmTraffic and crashes6 min9a855c47

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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