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Los Angeles, California · one day

Wednesday 3 December 2025

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

41

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

11:31 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:17 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 41 times on Wednesday 3 December 2025, the first at 11:31 am and the last at 7:17 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

41 drawable flights of 41. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Radio call71%
  2. Training and testing15%
  3. Patrol support7%
  4. Call for service5%
  5. Not stated2%

Flights, in order

41 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
11:31 amTraining and testing1 min 02 s0718701a
11:36 amRadio call18 minf74e0589
11:37 amTraining and testing1 min 10 sda8dbf9d
11:47 amRadio call21 minf16aebc1
11:48 amTraining and testing1 min 19 sa6567295
11:53 amTraining and testing1 min 07 sf90ba723
12:08 pmPatrol support19 mind3f3e1b0
12:09 pmRadio call13 min6e8c58fb
12:32 pmRadio call17 mina0b07ab9
12:48 pmRadio call12 mind2c8f92e
1:10 pmRadio call13 min3e26005a
1:11 pmRadio call18 min637a099a
1:26 pmRadio call20 min8ec1bcf6
1:37 pmRadio call18 min82392f0f
1:39 pmRadio call11 min449991af
2:02 pmRadio call10 min4752f78c
2:08 pmRadio call12 min45b137c5
2:15 pmCall for service18 min748f826d
2:26 pmPatrol support18 min2f75e978
2:41 pmCall for service4 min75f16c3d
2:46 pmRadio call7 min0d5ba582
2:59 pmPatrol support17 min51804619
3:03 pmTraining and testing3 min3c760979
3:06 pmRadio call11 min9e50b1c1
3:29 pmRadio call12 mincb70ad92
3:34 pmRadio call17 min10ed176d
3:46 pmRadio call18 min568c3f26
4:14 pmRadio call14 min8fd2bdaf
4:22 pmTraining and testing7 minc2dbdbea
4:32 pmRadio call11 mine8a81761
4:38 pmRadio call15 minca3c7167
4:45 pmRadio call23 min665455f6
5:01 pmRadio call14 minfe0ffc03
5:19 pmRadio call18 min5f087544
5:36 pmRadio call18 min123b3997
6:08 pmNot stated10 minb4ac55dd
6:21 pmRadio call16 min3c75307b
6:24 pmRadio call16 min1fc9b2b0
6:42 pmRadio call19 minda85c31c
6:56 pmRadio call13 min97bc3906
7:17 pmRadio call17 min554b3661

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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