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Los Angeles, California · one day

Saturday 6 September 2025

34 drone flights from Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

34

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:19 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 8:15 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 34 times on Saturday 6 September 2025, the first at 12:19 pm and the last at 8:15 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

34 drawable flights of 34. 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

  1. Radio call47%
  2. Training and testing38%
  3. Not stated9%
  4. Patrol support6%

Flights, in order

34 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:19 pmRadio call7 min836ab966
12:26 pmTraining and testing2 min891d02be
12:29 pmTraining and testing1 min 29 s452d4510
12:37 pmTraining and testing3 min636729a4
12:46 pmTraining and testing36 s68da68bd
12:47 pmTraining and testing46 s9452ed07
12:49 pmTraining and testing1 min 23 s063078b7
12:52 pmTraining and testing1 min 17 s61052434
1:09 pmPatrol support23 min5251e4b8
1:40 pmTraining and testing16 min693848f7
2:08 pmRadio call11 min9c813c96
2:28 pmRadio call8 min3edd7dac
2:47 pmRadio call24 min6ac22f2c
3:05 pmRadio call17 minc15af12f
3:30 pmRadio call16 min64a78979
3:44 pmTraining and testing9 min0e30b1b4
3:57 pmRadio call10 min3bb2dcc4
3:59 pmTraining and testing5 min5ffd220b
4:14 pmRadio call17 min967ee626
4:52 pmTraining and testing9 min641d3d9e
5:00 pmRadio call9 min8257b7a3
5:06 pmRadio call17 min593a7a06
5:17 pmPatrol support13 min9bc90cbc
5:23 pmRadio call7 min9b4f4a47
5:44 pmRadio call5 min5a03deec
5:50 pmNot stated13 min3fcdb3c5
6:12 pmNot stated23 min10e44c20
6:27 pmTraining and testing4 mina32ba123
6:55 pmRadio call17 minb9cdee1f
7:07 pmRadio call15 min73c51d7d
7:19 pmRadio call9 minb90121b3
7:22 pmTraining and testing22 min632a57a2
7:34 pmRadio call8 min5a731f75
8:15 pmNot stated8 min6204da5e

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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