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Los Angeles, California · one day

Friday 19 December 2025

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

48

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

10:33 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:02 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 48 times on Friday 19 December 2025, the first at 10:33 am and the last at 7:02 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

48 drawable flights of 48. 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 call85%
  2. Training and testing12%
  3. Patrol support2%

Flights, in order

48 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
10:33 amRadio call16 mincaa6d435
10:39 amRadio call18 mina5f1dcd0
10:50 amTraining and testing1 min 21 s10fd93af
11:00 amRadio call21 min0dcce1ff
11:05 amTraining and testing1 min 06 sfdf53a67
11:10 amRadio call18 min37fd831f
11:24 amRadio call15 minf96fccb7
11:33 amTraining and testing1 min 43 sdd2d1555
11:37 amTraining and testing2 min9167f379
11:38 amRadio call20 minc36bc4d5
11:49 amRadio call7 min47542df1
12:01 pmRadio call9 min62343412
12:05 pmRadio call23 mine471802c
12:19 pmRadio call23 minb6880278
12:29 pmRadio call21 min1a6d8708
12:53 pmRadio call14 min84f5a0ae
12:58 pmRadio call18 min98e9de54
1:17 pmRadio call12 min9485114a
1:22 pmRadio call19 min8974cd8e
1:32 pmRadio call23 min49363eeb
1:46 pmRadio call16 min5cfec4f7
1:46 pmRadio call16 minb78303e3
2:12 pmRadio call13 min1d6ac2f3
2:15 pmRadio call7 min598c5b26
2:24 pmRadio call12 min3215508c
2:29 pmRadio call18 min4de54e04
2:53 pmRadio call12 minc606c0fa
3:02 pmRadio call20 minda9c8228
3:12 pmTraining and testing11 minae3f9b19
3:30 pmPatrol support12 min78a6a229
3:41 pmRadio call16 minc2397324
3:55 pmRadio call13 minfdbb6ea5
4:10 pmRadio call17 minde9cc684
4:12 pmRadio call8 min00f48607
4:19 pmRadio call7 minb91f0215
4:37 pmRadio call16 mind1116a0c
4:40 pmRadio call21 mina09eacdc
4:40 pmRadio call20 min1b165f7c
4:56 pmTraining and testing4 min74a6fe84
5:02 pmRadio call6 mina81cc6fc
5:20 pmRadio call4 mine26ee425
5:31 pmRadio call18 min83d89a01
5:35 pmRadio call9 mine48d7e2e
6:03 pmRadio call13 min3922f850
6:09 pmRadio call9 min5805926a
6:25 pmRadio call10 min58b15f21
6:32 pmRadio call17 min1a9eb4d7
7:02 pmRadio call11 min453baf68

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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