drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

8:26 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:10 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 15 times on Friday 1 August 2025, the first at 8:26 am and the last at 3:10 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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, PDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing100%

Flights, in order

15 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 (PDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
8:26 am	Training and testing	18 min	`8c7740b9`
8:54 am	Training and testing	18 min	`24d469b0`
9:32 am	Training and testing	21 min	`4e9bb634`
10:02 am	Training and testing	20 min	`7b4a97aa`
10:33 am	Training and testing	20 min	`a904e3ff`
10:43 am	Training and testing	14 min	`b9217a16`
12:32 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`0b11f5e6`
12:43 pm	Training and testing	20 min	`ffb73a29`
1:14 pm	Training and testing	21 min	`cf7b1810`
1:41 pm	Training and testing	13 min	`5b1b1c58`
2:05 pm	Training and testing	20 min	`e1d7f2d4`
2:31 pm	Training and testing	20 min	`bd4a4087`
2:54 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`72a2746e`
3:07 pm	Training and testing	3 min	`302c5498`
3:10 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`7e017e62`

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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