drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:40 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:19 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 17 times on Wednesday 17 September 2025, the first at 12:40 pm and the last at 9:19 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

Radio call100%

Flights, in order

17 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
12:40 pm	Radio call	2 min	`2e159f4f`
1:04 pm	Radio call	7 min	`553ebf52`
1:21 pm	Radio call	15 min	`7465acc0`
1:45 pm	Radio call	13 min	`f7f07efc`
2:03 pm	Radio call	16 min	`149d5a4b`
2:27 pm	Radio call	19 min	`d14d2c17`
2:39 pm	Radio call	10 min	`d68d001f`
3:33 pm	Radio call	13 min	`efcb619c`
3:50 pm	Radio call	10 min	`7e3ef843`
4:31 pm	Radio call	6 min	`262f5aa0`
6:28 pm	Radio call	13 min	`5b6b888c`
6:41 pm	Radio call	4 min	`095cd3e0`
6:48 pm	Radio call	9 min	`a4f2398d`
7:19 pm	Radio call	14 min	`e38e1549`
8:31 pm	Radio call	12 min	`465badc0`
8:46 pm	Radio call	16 min	`b5509e32`
9:19 pm	Radio call	16 min	`7c45956e`

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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