drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

6:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:08 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 24 times on Tuesday 3 February 2026, the first at 6:47 am and the last at 3:08 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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 call83%
Training and testing12%
Call for service4%

Flights, in order

24 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
6:47 am	Training and testing	6 min	`27438382`
7:09 am	Radio call	6 min	`73c389ef`
7:26 am	Training and testing	3 min	`6dd5d202`
7:48 am	Radio call	11 min	`dd8b2e72`
8:23 am	Radio call	11 min	`929b5947`
8:50 am	Radio call	11 min	`d0c98a49`
8:53 am	Radio call	12 min	`0a89b144`
9:25 am	Radio call	8 min	`aa11a4e0`
9:40 am	Radio call	12 min	`18eeeffd`
10:00 am	Call for service	3 min	`9c2d96b0`
10:00 am	Radio call	10 min	`2ec45bc2`
10:32 am	Radio call	9 min	`254ea35c`
11:13 am	Radio call	12 min	`d8cb135f`
11:28 am	Radio call	8 min	`5d140dcf`
11:38 am	Radio call	15 min	`e7818d5b`
11:54 am	Radio call	10 min	`d7485043`
12:17 pm	Radio call	16 min	`1061e16c`
12:32 pm	Radio call	16 min	`68081e95`
12:55 pm	Radio call	10 min	`af9d134b`
1:11 pm	Radio call	16 min	`2a502de2`
1:19 pm	Radio call	15 min	`2d19d7b0`
2:11 pm	Radio call	17 min	`3d895a5d`
3:01 pm	Radio call	15 min	`94e22847`
3:08 pm	Training and testing	38 s	`c53d251d`

How this page is made

Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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