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Los Angeles, California · one day

Saturday 30 May 2026

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

35

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:40 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:32 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 35 times on Saturday 30 May 2026, the first at 12:40 pm and the last at 10:32 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

35 drawable flights of 35. 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 call57%
  2. Patrol support34%
  3. Call for service6%
  4. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

35 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
12:40 pmPatrol support19 min9a5fc68f
12:44 pmRadio call11 minf0a0f184
1:26 pmRadio call11 min472ded59
1:42 pmRadio call14 min4977041f
2:22 pmRadio call7 mina00477fd
2:42 pmCall for service10 mind5da8480
2:51 pmRadio call15 min380ba9b6
3:18 pmRadio call14 min7b7a437a
3:32 pmCall for service9 minea463852
3:49 pmRadio call9 min115e9ba3
3:54 pmRadio call11 min9be99eb9
4:06 pmRadio call19 min74674c51
4:40 pmRadio call11 mincba4bfa2
5:16 pmRadio call12 minf592cfe3
5:17 pmRadio call16 min11115a3d
5:40 pmRadio call20 min8cadda69
5:56 pmRadio call12 minf41b9225
6:24 pmRadio call22 minbdb22011
6:25 pmRadio call11 min80674470
6:46 pmPatrol support16 minba463f40
6:54 pmNot stated11 min2c280a2d
7:06 pmPatrol support15 mine7d7fb57
7:14 pmRadio call17 min889b44c7
7:28 pmPatrol support16 min21a13636
7:36 pmRadio call16 min5b9816e4
8:00 pmPatrol support17 min843a1e14
8:09 pmPatrol support17 min2150dc52
8:24 pmRadio call19 min2217d916
8:39 pmPatrol support20 min1116606a
8:56 pmPatrol support20 min23db295c
9:29 pmRadio call20 min21f5e4db
9:44 pmPatrol support21 minf4635157
10:01 pmPatrol support21 minb23228ab
10:16 pmPatrol support21 minccc51d2f
10:32 pmPatrol support21 min0ee33664

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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