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Los Angeles, California · one day

Saturday 1 November 2025

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

42

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

2:51 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:49 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 42 times on Saturday 1 November 2025, the first at 2:51 pm and the last at 11:49 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

42 drawable flights of 42. 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. Call for service26%
  2. Patrol support21%
  3. Not stated21%
  4. Radio call17%
  5. Training and testing14%

Flights, in order

42 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
2:51 pmTraining and testing3 min7f09c367
2:51 pmRadio call3 min65a4c30e
2:56 pmTraining and testing16 mindc095bbc
2:57 pmTraining and testing2 min853525ee
3:05 pmRadio call8 min134fe07e
3:07 pmRadio call3 mind795a10a
3:23 pmPatrol support25 mina6420681
3:41 pmCall for service15 min1b9cd267
4:37 pmTraining and testing16 minaf9c0985
5:09 pmRadio call20 mine3651a59
5:12 pmTraining and testing8 min70a2ce2a
5:22 pmCall for service11 min0be6e04e
5:57 pmTraining and testing2 minf88adaf9
6:05 pmNot stated5 mineaa1cc79
6:22 pmRadio call14 min7d5d1f84
6:43 pmPatrol support14 mina22b774d
7:03 pmRadio call17 min9ddd0bd8
7:15 pmRadio call14 min419729f9
7:25 pmNot stated10 min93353231
7:42 pmNot stated17 min5e49ca37
7:54 pmPatrol support12 min626837ce
8:22 pmNot stated17 minf270a415
8:31 pmPatrol support14 min7c3b6921
9:22 pmCall for service19 min53f25fb7
9:24 pmNot stated19 mind2c88bc5
9:46 pmCall for service0 se560857f
9:56 pmCall for service16 min1962a72b
9:59 pmCall for service5 mine015ba70
10:04 pmNot stated15 min92164c70
10:12 pmCall for service23 min6b9a6c18
10:24 pmNot stated19 min3476501d
10:32 pmCall for service18 min1e666d37
10:44 pmNot stated15 mind9b29fa8
10:45 pmPatrol support17 mind9545c69
10:51 pmCall for service20 min308e9604
11:04 pmPatrol support18 min43ca09aa
11:14 pmCall for service19 min20b81480
11:24 pmNot stated14 min30a5a156
11:28 pmPatrol support17 min8520e285
11:34 pmCall for service19 mine674a58c
11:41 pmPatrol support18 min42fad9a4
11:49 pmPatrol support21 min01b90d3b

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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