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Los Angeles, California · one day

Friday 12 December 2025

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

34

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

11:09 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:09 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 34 times on Friday 12 December 2025, the first at 11:09 am and the last at 7:09 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

34 drawable flights of 34. 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 call76%
  2. Training and testing15%
  3. Patrol support9%

Flights, in order

34 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
11:09 amRadio call1 min 58 sa70b68f5
11:27 amRadio call16 mineddf3a0e
11:48 amRadio call12 min758f9b4b
11:54 amTraining and testing1 min 18 sd8fd11c9
12:02 pmTraining and testing1 min 09 sb3857adf
12:19 pmTraining and testing4 min583ecbfb
12:26 pmTraining and testing2 min3f680a72
12:33 pmRadio call8 min338f1ca9
12:33 pmRadio call9 min153b1f3a
12:43 pmRadio call8 min3b13caf4
12:52 pmRadio call10 min0e3fcc28
12:53 pmRadio call17 min7a3ea841
1:07 pmRadio call22 minf18be242
1:20 pmRadio call7 min6c1d31bb
1:32 pmPatrol support8 minbb529c77
1:34 pmRadio call21 minaebaf155
1:51 pmRadio call10 mind2789221
2:10 pmRadio call7 min64ca9981
2:19 pmTraining and testing2 min75a3855a
2:25 pmRadio call16 min4abaaaf5
2:52 pmRadio call15 min4ae01db3
2:56 pmRadio call13 mincea7f4e8
3:25 pmRadio call10 minc4214628
3:34 pmRadio call19 min83c522a4
3:59 pmRadio call12 minab724710
4:14 pmRadio call1 min 10 s4c8a2787
4:16 pmRadio call13 min07bdcb87
4:27 pmRadio call15 min09e75f3f
4:31 pmPatrol support20 min489d86f1
5:08 pmRadio call5 mind4980898
5:09 pmRadio call18 minb7b626ba
6:08 pmRadio call18 min0801ed0a
6:14 pmRadio call14 min2c6d70e1
7:09 pmPatrol support15 mineb42189c

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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