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Los Angeles, California · one day

Wednesday 17 December 2025

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

34

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

10:23 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:51 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 34 times on Wednesday 17 December 2025, the first at 10:23 am and the last at 6:51 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 call62%
  2. Training and testing24%
  3. Call for service15%

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
10:23 amRadio call10 minf96bf8e9
11:08 amRadio call14 minb5aef4b4
11:27 amRadio call15 min9cdd7afd
11:44 amRadio call2 minae1a91ab
11:48 amRadio call18 mind88b9a99
11:51 amTraining and testing3 min67f39901
11:58 amRadio call18 min5b060c14
12:13 pmTraining and testing4 min2528ea0c
12:15 pmTraining and testing4 min8de3af99
12:24 pmRadio call12 mind7010c7b
12:37 pmTraining and testing8 min7438b0d6
12:50 pmTraining and testing3 min546c697e
12:54 pmRadio call14 mind70c391f
12:55 pmRadio call5 mind33bd369
1:00 pmRadio call10 min9087540a
1:10 pmTraining and testing13 min52b562cf
1:12 pmRadio call7 min97472b52
1:24 pmRadio call10 min96107642
1:57 pmRadio call24 min0e080f01
1:57 pmRadio call16 min1d58574b
2:15 pmRadio call20 min5ef9f906
2:51 pmTraining and testing2 min2d1b351a
3:22 pmRadio call10 minbf5b16d6
3:23 pmTraining and testing3 min2fb621c9
3:33 pmRadio call6 min00a2b171
3:34 pmRadio call20 min2ce71ced
3:44 pmCall for service19 min5359f918
4:01 pmCall for service21 min120a20d5
4:14 pmCall for service23 mind5512ac6
4:30 pmCall for service21 min1c815864
4:45 pmCall for service12 min61a055b8
5:03 pmRadio call11 min0f5b7a20
6:42 pmRadio call14 mindd8b2dd1
6:51 pmRadio call16 mine749e00f

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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