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Los Angeles, California · one day

Sunday 31 May 2026

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

31

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:42 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:13 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 31 times on Sunday 31 May 2026, the first at 12:42 pm and the last at 9:13 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

31 drawable flights of 31. 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 call90%
  2. Call for service6%
  3. Patrol support3%

Flights, in order

31 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
12:42 pmRadio call8 min6115a7d2
1:03 pmRadio call14 minf071b6ba
1:24 pmRadio call11 minb951325e
1:28 pmRadio call14 min35d09c79
1:57 pmRadio call13 min2d569913
2:13 pmRadio call9 minb54521ef
2:14 pmRadio call13 mina8db610e
2:38 pmRadio call8 min6ad72157
2:43 pmRadio call11 min7ef857f3
2:52 pmCall for service16 mina7bb1e52
3:11 pmRadio call14 min953a60ba
3:37 pmRadio call8 min4adac8f2
4:07 pmRadio call12 minf0bf383f
4:23 pmRadio call20 min7d19d6fc
4:42 pmRadio call7 min78bc0ec2
5:00 pmRadio call3 min54d87d85
5:14 pmRadio call21 mindb4ca614
5:30 pmRadio call8 min7c9aab1e
5:41 pmRadio call17 min90f3d87a
5:47 pmRadio call11 min201e6155
6:06 pmRadio call8 mine80fb0fd
6:32 pmRadio call7 min884f87d5
6:41 pmRadio call16 minb0a001da
6:50 pmRadio call18 mindf9a8465
7:25 pmPatrol support16 mina01813d6
7:31 pmRadio call6 min3d1e90e1
8:10 pmRadio call9 min5befed44
8:11 pmCall for service9 minc85874c0
8:22 pmRadio call13 min99b283cf
8:51 pmRadio call12 minee1df199
9:13 pmRadio call16 mind48598e0

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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