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Los Angeles, California · one day

Friday 5 June 2026

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

24

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:43 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 8:23 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 24 times on Friday 5 June 2026, the first at 12:43 pm and the last at 8:23 pm PDT, 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, PDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Radio call96%
  2. Patrol support4%

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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:43 pmRadio call12 minf3e00bad
1:46 pmRadio call11 min815b1896
2:37 pmRadio call12 minb8673613
2:57 pmRadio call15 min86f81f8a
3:41 pmRadio call18 min46bb66e8
4:41 pmRadio call11 mina3897ae0
4:48 pmRadio call23 mine4f47e52
5:04 pmRadio call8 min6846c2eb
5:21 pmRadio call15 minb3e01dfd
5:48 pmRadio call12 min0e729fae
5:58 pmRadio call7 mine72cb9dd
6:11 pmRadio call11 mindcdb0620
6:15 pmRadio call10 minffc2e297
6:26 pmRadio call3 min870b3538
6:32 pmRadio call16 min35a2c40f
6:37 pmRadio call10 min67e2aaea
6:42 pmPatrol support14 min4a83ec66
7:04 pmRadio call6 minece1b98b
7:19 pmRadio call18 minabca4512
7:22 pmRadio call11 min9ce4198f
7:33 pmRadio call18 min89099981
7:45 pmRadio call11 mind37737fb
8:01 pmRadio call5 minb4a1e7a9
8:23 pmRadio call16 min6d06fa76

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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