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Los Angeles, California · one day

Monday 4 May 2026

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

36

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:33 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:08 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 36 times on Monday 4 May 2026, the first at 12:33 pm and the last at 9:08 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

36 drawable flights of 36. 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, PDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Radio call94%
  2. Patrol support6%

Flights, in order

36 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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:33 pmRadio call14 minf8671483
12:57 pmRadio call7 minbe7d07b6
1:00 pmRadio call15 mine69eb90e
1:12 pmRadio call10 min648c13d9
1:30 pmRadio call14 min59e611fb
1:32 pmRadio call20 minb6ab9483
1:49 pmRadio call11 min4d97ce5b
1:59 pmRadio call4 minc87c1953
2:28 pmRadio call18 mincd4c728c
2:51 pmRadio call13 min3c5c12fe
3:00 pmRadio call10 min97c0a0fd
3:10 pmRadio call7 min7ca6a78c
3:29 pmRadio call15 min9a4a8367
3:40 pmRadio call11 mined8d9775
4:09 pmRadio call9 min3c978747
4:10 pmPatrol support13 mine62b5077
4:20 pmRadio call15 min84cb2b46
4:59 pmRadio call13 minb39431eb
5:20 pmRadio call12 minccf610ef
5:45 pmRadio call14 min2831887c
5:52 pmRadio call11 min12d39897
5:57 pmRadio call1 min 36 s0aaa6306
6:05 pmRadio call15 min8081fb23
6:32 pmRadio call14 min80919291
6:40 pmPatrol support15 min99d76a97
6:49 pmRadio call18 min591369a0
7:00 pmRadio call9 min739ebb3b
7:11 pmRadio call12 min91fa2385
7:15 pmRadio call7 minf59cc229
7:22 pmRadio call16 min55c86fc8
7:53 pmRadio call11 mindd6e45d0
8:06 pmRadio call10 min1db55a00
8:17 pmRadio call9 minf528b492
8:32 pmRadio call12 min2598b932
9:00 pmRadio call18 min0cf12d35
9:08 pmRadio call17 min17ff5aaa

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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