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Los Angeles, California · one day

Tuesday 18 November 2025

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

24

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

11:58 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:24 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 24 times on Tuesday 18 November 2025, the first at 11:58 am and the last at 7:24 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. Call for service21%
  3. Training and testing8%
  4. Patrol support4%

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
11:58 amRadio call17 mindcf83b88
11:59 amRadio call11 min0c3ede31
12:00 pmTraining and testing1 min 15 s78cf28f0
12:05 pmTraining and testing1 min 22 s86197c7c
12:34 pmCall for service3 minda4591aa
12:51 pmCall for service6 min16c1f812
12:58 pmRadio call21 min99bfcdfe
1:36 pmRadio call17 min021d8271
1:44 pmRadio call16 min6e2b4af7
2:05 pmRadio call12 min0b4da44e
2:17 pmRadio call10 mine96ea1e7
2:37 pmRadio call15 mine176f36f
3:04 pmRadio call13 mind6d4175d
3:09 pmRadio call18 min9578082f
3:30 pmCall for service11 min21b5e59d
3:48 pmCall for service6 min2c8bc808
3:57 pmCall for service10 mina350f9ed
4:03 pmRadio call14 minb03272d6
4:16 pmPatrol support16 min1753ee1d
5:24 pmRadio call10 min89ca1b31
5:39 pmRadio call16 min97b4b0c3
5:43 pmRadio call18 minb337a4cf
6:24 pmRadio call6 min8a0dca6a
7:24 pmRadio call14 min3db347f5

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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