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Los Angeles, California · one day

Wednesday 10 September 2025

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

25

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:22 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 8:52 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 25 times on Wednesday 10 September 2025, the first at 12:22 pm and the last at 8:52 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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 call76%
  2. Training and testing20%
  3. Patrol support4%

Flights, in order

25 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
12:22 pmTraining and testing3 min3589d75e
12:27 pmTraining and testing6 min49d1680e
12:35 pmTraining and testing35 sc7c980a9
1:23 pmRadio call12 min865c0ea3
1:27 pmRadio call12 min70846e89
1:40 pmRadio call15 min18857cc5
2:05 pmPatrol support7 minda70019a
2:18 pmTraining and testing1 min 52 s05fce60e
2:21 pmRadio call8 min0f8954a2
2:38 pmRadio call11 min8ee25dbd
2:46 pmRadio call17 minca5a3ddb
3:06 pmRadio call19 min855e703d
3:58 pmRadio call15 min1a94531d
4:19 pmRadio call14 min8cf182ea
4:25 pmRadio call15 min8d75c419
4:34 pmRadio call17 min8c91ef8c
5:16 pmRadio call20 minbbe2dbf0
6:26 pmRadio call10 min21ed71de
6:26 pmRadio call13 min70ec7bdd
7:14 pmRadio call24 min4f1c69ec
7:22 pmRadio call14 min24f19a73
7:25 pmRadio call25 min22dd0dfa
7:43 pmRadio call10 min99729750
7:58 pmRadio call15 minc97a9c99
8:52 pmTraining and testing7 min7ff73e0b

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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