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Los Angeles, California · one day

Thursday 18 December 2025

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

39

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

9:56 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:41 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 39 times on Thursday 18 December 2025, the first at 9:56 am and the last at 6:41 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

39 drawable flights of 39. 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 call74%
  2. Training and testing23%
  3. Patrol support3%

Flights, in order

39 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
9:56 amPatrol support18 minf1a84c4e
10:54 amRadio call17 min54a23c5f
11:04 amRadio call20 min5b277b53
11:36 amRadio call9 minae0d548d
11:37 amTraining and testing2 min0207c9f9
11:43 amRadio call13 min159e65d9
11:44 amTraining and testing1 min 50 s1f3ceb9b
12:11 pmRadio call1 min 08 sb164ef9f
12:22 pmRadio call17 mind5c3d253
12:32 pmRadio call13 mind26077b6
12:46 pmRadio call6 minb6affcfb
12:56 pmRadio call21 min3b2de956
1:08 pmRadio call17 mind27a933b
1:35 pmRadio call13 min1cad471c
1:52 pmRadio call19 min5bc3892b
2:09 pmTraining and testing1 min 05 s6a8f5f5e
2:15 pmTraining and testing58 s171f39d7
2:15 pmRadio call17 minfee662e4
2:23 pmRadio call19 mind6b39c35
2:32 pmRadio call8 minbca7ef28
3:11 pmRadio call22 mina3647476
3:19 pmTraining and testing4 min486132b4
3:30 pmRadio call20 min5843c6cc
3:47 pmRadio call7 min8c7b636d
3:57 pmRadio call19 mine3edab2f
3:57 pmRadio call3 min7175646f
4:06 pmRadio call11 min723af5b7
4:20 pmTraining and testing6 min60b96acd
4:21 pmTraining and testing10 mind07183a9
4:32 pmTraining and testing5 min7edd4d30
4:39 pmRadio call10 mincf46f4f0
4:41 pmRadio call15 mine43d8959
4:44 pmRadio call20 min22cd81bd
5:23 pmRadio call11 mind4b38243
5:25 pmRadio call5 min2f8a0436
5:52 pmRadio call16 minb61a9679
6:23 pmTraining and testing1 min 34 s4a54c51e
6:32 pmRadio call12 min4327c5e9
6:41 pmRadio call11 minfb8d313b

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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