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Los Angeles, California · one day

Thursday 20 November 2025

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

11

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

11:12 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:45 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 11 times on Thursday 20 November 2025, the first at 11:12 am and the last at 5:45 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. 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 call91%
  2. Patrol support9%

Flights, in order

11 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
11:12 amRadio call3 min08a3417b
11:22 amRadio call19 min1ec3d1a8
11:25 amRadio call20 min8b537436
11:43 amRadio call20 min4a435f64
12:03 pmRadio call18 min526ce7ee
12:15 pmRadio call10 min39949029
12:30 pmPatrol support11 min05e9a451
12:50 pmRadio call1 min 07 s763562b7
1:04 pmRadio call19 mine456d174
2:38 pmRadio call7 min9406d6a5
5:45 pmRadio call15 min2b7d3057

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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