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Los Angeles, California · one day

Saturday 8 November 2025

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

24

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

1:28 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:20 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 24 times on Saturday 8 November 2025, the first at 1:28 pm and the last at 10:20 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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, PST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Radio call67%
  2. Training and testing25%
  3. Call for service8%

Flights, in order

24 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 (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
1:28 pmTraining and testing2 min0e2dc7e9
1:32 pmTraining and testing4 min3d675575
1:51 pmTraining and testing1 min 36 s280c042f
2:02 pmRadio call19 min03ffa1a9
2:22 pmRadio call7 min28eab823
2:52 pmRadio call19 min798b18fa
2:53 pmCall for service15 min230daf68
3:15 pmRadio call19 mind6299754
3:25 pmRadio call14 mincb0adca6
3:55 pmCall for service19 min41032d7f
4:12 pmRadio call14 minf3a6a661
4:49 pmRadio call15 minac8d5e99
5:00 pmRadio call19 min7a524d26
5:44 pmRadio call11 min4bcc7c0a
5:52 pmRadio call9 mina8c5dd6d
6:07 pmTraining and testing1 min 16 s855e20e4
6:27 pmRadio call8 mincebbfc74
7:03 pmRadio call18 min2e69f5dc
8:16 pmTraining and testing4 min5fbeb0e5
8:20 pmRadio call13 minb37fe114
8:50 pmTraining and testing1 min 36 s84df7bf7
9:16 pmRadio call7 minc2033c74
10:10 pmRadio call6 min7dc76205
10:20 pmRadio call12 min3b66db79

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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