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Los Angeles, California · one day

Wednesday 1 July 2026

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

38

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:12 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:18 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 38 times on Wednesday 1 July 2026, the first at 12:12 pm and the last at 9:18 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

38 drawable flights of 38. 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 call95%
  2. Call for service3%
  3. Patrol support3%

Flights, in order

38 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
12:12 pmCall for service5 min24392606
12:51 pmRadio call11 min85a69835
1:06 pmRadio call13 mind5c9a139
1:06 pmRadio call10 min0fd2e6d8
1:35 pmRadio call14 min01114038
1:39 pmRadio call17 min5c7d6731
1:50 pmRadio call15 min508fae29
2:09 pmRadio call12 minde0f5202
2:28 pmRadio call15 min97d69a4a
2:52 pmRadio call9 min01186086
3:10 pmRadio call19 mindc41e7ea
3:51 pmRadio call5 mind50427fc
3:55 pmRadio call15 min781c049c
4:05 pmRadio call4 minfbf4a989
4:15 pmRadio call16 min12a5521d
4:39 pmRadio call5 min7eb58198
4:46 pmRadio call9 mindfa68bc3
5:00 pmRadio call13 min40b37cca
5:20 pmRadio call15 mina134251d
5:35 pmRadio call9 min586180eb
5:49 pmRadio call9 min60b40713
5:49 pmRadio call12 mina21bea1b
6:06 pmRadio call8 min89872857
6:15 pmRadio call11 mindbfcdb59
6:27 pmRadio call16 min2255ea42
6:42 pmRadio call23 mind19e81a6
6:50 pmRadio call14 min014ecd8c
7:02 pmRadio call11 min239bf43b
7:35 pmRadio call18 minc90aabad
7:39 pmPatrol support8 min3a4e6c92
7:47 pmRadio call13 min902fe755
7:55 pmRadio call1 min 15 s7fb02176
8:14 pmRadio call13 mineb10ea9a
8:40 pmRadio call7 min3809da62
8:52 pmRadio call14 mind7170e51
9:00 pmRadio call14 min16beaba3
9:09 pmRadio call14 mina869d330
9:18 pmRadio call10 min044fb5cf

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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