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Los Angeles, California · one day

Thursday 11 September 2025

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

32

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:26 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:24 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 32 times on Thursday 11 September 2025, the first at 12:26 pm and the last at 9:24 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

32 drawable flights of 32. 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 call78%
  2. Training and testing12%
  3. Patrol support6%
  4. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

32 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
12:26 pmTraining and testing1 min 38 s056a62f4
12:30 pmNot stated1 min 30 s60bd2215
12:37 pmTraining and testing7 mine7cf3325
12:45 pmTraining and testing1 min 39 sf1577f2b
12:47 pmRadio call17 mind3b91086
1:12 pmRadio call15 mincec72b23
1:36 pmRadio call13 min05eda1e4
1:46 pmRadio call13 min811a6554
2:00 pmRadio call6 mine0d3c7e4
2:24 pmRadio call9 minf9f154e1
2:49 pmRadio call16 minf537894b
3:17 pmRadio call13 mine7c5e878
3:30 pmRadio call11 min8ba41b11
3:37 pmRadio call13 min016e8c97
4:22 pmRadio call9 min1301169b
4:53 pmRadio call17 min54d04f0f
5:11 pmRadio call12 mind265fccc
5:25 pmRadio call19 min17d1527f
5:31 pmRadio call8 min849b01e8
5:37 pmRadio call8 min4f1a4ef3
5:54 pmRadio call21 min9f19e144
5:55 pmRadio call11 minaf957bab
6:03 pmPatrol support21 min6135324a
6:23 pmPatrol support15 min09c581c1
7:08 pmRadio call15 min1d1b5c7b
7:25 pmRadio call16 minab57a752
7:53 pmTraining and testing5 min0dfff74a
8:05 pmRadio call18 min8f69dd12
8:28 pmRadio call18 min82999eea
8:47 pmRadio call9 min9c13978d
8:58 pmRadio call17 min02d50288
9:24 pmRadio call16 min8a2965f9

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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