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Los Angeles, California · one day

Wednesday 29 October 2025

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

38

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

1:23 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:48 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 38 times on Wednesday 29 October 2025, the first at 1:23 pm and the last at 9:48 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

38 drawable flights of 38. 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

  1. Radio call47%
  2. Training and testing32%
  3. Patrol support13%
  4. Call for service8%

Flights, in order

38 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
1:23 pmTraining and testing10 min12c8e0f5
1:53 pmTraining and testing3 min0eb794de
1:55 pmRadio call7 min93cb6689
2:15 pmRadio call18 min13d7988d
2:16 pmTraining and testing2 minb2eb68f3
2:27 pmRadio call16 minf88118c0
3:22 pmRadio call9 min8151f122
3:27 pmRadio call16 minc16e9cfa
3:38 pmRadio call13 min94129208
3:53 pmTraining and testing10 min10d91fd2
4:06 pmTraining and testing4 mindb407b7a
4:09 pmTraining and testing15 min86676214
4:22 pmPatrol support9 mine3e92e3c
4:34 pmTraining and testing14 min8492fca3
4:37 pmRadio call18 min25a08d0a
4:54 pmCall for service1 min 13 s37b8fcff
5:08 pmRadio call14 min936973db
5:19 pmRadio call3 mina52e19c9
5:30 pmTraining and testing9 minf2694367
5:46 pmRadio call17 min929aeb2f
5:50 pmRadio call18 min194d63a0
5:53 pmTraining and testing2 mind942a863
5:56 pmTraining and testing7 min7d010c57
6:04 pmPatrol support16 min06915b1b
6:42 pmPatrol support21 min0772b25d
6:54 pmPatrol support13 min0a352f69
7:02 pmTraining and testing2 minace1a326
7:09 pmTraining and testing2 min3166313c
7:26 pmRadio call13 min5c96bcf2
7:41 pmRadio call12 min6472b775
7:50 pmRadio call15 min576e0ad9
8:14 pmRadio call11 min471760c6
8:35 pmRadio call16 min86e6b970
8:55 pmRadio call12 minf2323273
9:07 pmRadio call15 min0640abe9
9:20 pmPatrol support24 min5b49e1c9
9:34 pmCall for service22 mine2d2cdbf
9:48 pmCall for service14 min5a8e3026

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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