drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

10:51 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:48 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 18 times on Tuesday 23 December 2025, the first at 10:51 am and the last at 3:48 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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

Radio call56%
Training and testing17%
Patrol support17%
Call for service11%

Flights, in order

18 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
10:51 am	Radio call	12 min	`d0214da6`
11:04 am	Radio call	19 min	`3fa0daed`
11:20 am	Radio call	18 min	`80763386`
12:03 pm	Radio call	9 min	`4e0d9072`
12:26 pm	Radio call	14 min	`88ffed00`
12:40 pm	Radio call	10 min	`9505ca38`
12:42 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`30e0903e`
12:59 pm	Call for service	8 min	`11370878`
1:00 pm	Patrol support	22 min	`543481dd`
1:11 pm	Patrol support	17 min	`c7ddaaea`
1:41 pm	Radio call	14 min	`f190862a`
1:44 pm	Radio call	6 min	`5dff6a15`
2:16 pm	Radio call	8 min	`6780c9df`
2:19 pm	Training and testing	1 min 15 s	`828191e9`
2:38 pm	Radio call	17 min	`08010e21`
2:45 pm	Patrol support	22 min	`d1ca57bf`
2:58 pm	Call for service	14 min	`abbba4d3`
3:48 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`2d92a0c7`

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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