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  4. January 2026
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Los Angeles, California · one day

Wednesday 14 January 2026

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

27

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

10:02 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:39 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 27 times on Wednesday 14 January 2026, the first at 10:02 am and the last at 6:39 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

27 drawable flights of 27. 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 call78%
  2. Training and testing15%
  3. Patrol support4%
  4. Call for service4%

Flights, in order

27 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
10:02 amTraining and testing1 min 00 se76c8220
11:08 amRadio call8 minda7fe63c
11:32 amTraining and testing40 s5dae610c
11:41 amTraining and testing9 minfb2f0716
11:51 amTraining and testing1 min 07 sf962ec3d
11:54 amRadio call18 mindeeafc60
12:01 pmRadio call18 min288edc36
12:17 pmRadio call5 min48f0baa5
12:33 pmRadio call21 min22b0cc0e
12:36 pmPatrol support1 min 46 s7eacaf5e
1:12 pmRadio call17 mind40ad275
1:31 pmRadio call18 minbb5e6ff4
1:56 pmCall for service12 min4e53ec09
2:20 pmRadio call23 min7a5aca76
2:34 pmRadio call4 min532c6ff8
2:56 pmRadio call14 min0ccf139f
3:04 pmRadio call11 min5d2dee01
3:27 pmRadio call19 min360765aa
3:39 pmRadio call10 min55b9ef41
4:02 pmRadio call14 min07e953f0
4:08 pmRadio call16 min2b2c6e46
4:24 pmRadio call9 minf6f0b83a
5:02 pmRadio call11 minb9e2cbde
5:28 pmRadio call18 min7d9346d3
6:00 pmRadio call14 min3c5734dd
6:12 pmRadio call14 min86bf6069
6:39 pmRadio call15 min02eea982

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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