Drone Crime and Incident Tracker

Reported incidents by month, with a three-month average

By event month, under the current filters. Faint columns are monthly counts; the line is the trailing three-month mean. The two highest months are labelled with their count and the category that led them. The rise over time partly reflects how much older news the sources still index, so it is not necessarily a measure of change in incidence (see Methods).

Source: Drone Crime and Incident Tracker. The latest month is partial.

How the mix of reported incidents has shifted

Categories ranked by their count in each year, under the current filters other than category. The largest category is in black; a category you have filtered to in the filter bar is in red. Hover a line to follow it; click one to pin its highlight here.

Each category by quarter

Each panel has its own scale, so read the shape within a panel, not the height across panels. The open dot is the current, partial quarter. Click a panel to highlight that category in the chart above.

What the reports say happened next

Each ribbon is a share of incidents, from the type of incident to the furthest legal stage its reports describe. Red marks a conviction, plea, or sentence. "None reported" means the reports mention no legal step, not that none happened; follow-up coverage is rarer than first reports. Hover a ribbon for the count; click a category to isolate its ribbons.

Source: Drone Crime and Incident Tracker. Categories beyond the eight largest are grouped.

The incidents that drew the most reporting

One dot per incident, placed by event date and sized by how many reports describe it. The three most covered are named. Hover a dot for its summary; click to open the record.

Where incidents are reported

One circle per place, sized by the number of incidents reported there; faded circles are places known only to the state or country. Locations are geocoded from the place names in news reports. Incidents with no usable location are left off the map but counted in the list. Click a country in the list to zoom the map to it; click a circle for that place's incidents.

Incidents