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Los Angeles, California · one day

Thursday 2 July 2026

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

38

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:40 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:22 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 38 times on Thursday 2 July 2026, the first at 12:40 pm and the last at 9:22 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 call89%
  2. Call for service5%
  3. Not stated5%

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
12:40 pmRadio call14 min289e596b
12:56 pmRadio call19 min3c84da6b
1:03 pmCall for service20 min79ca0a87
1:17 pmRadio call19 minab193170
1:38 pmCall for service17 min6ca53f59
1:56 pmRadio call6 mina9886195
2:00 pmNot stated7 minef3228fd
2:13 pmRadio call8 min3d348f2b
2:36 pmRadio call10 mina243ebbe
2:55 pmRadio call17 min3d28da81
2:55 pmRadio call12 min5a32ae02
3:19 pmRadio call11 min00d1df94
3:23 pmNot stated14 min7e6ac2e3
3:35 pmRadio call17 min135b7e2c
3:40 pmRadio call11 minb6582a98
3:48 pmRadio call10 minc973f7c7
4:06 pmRadio call12 min6f7bd3c7
4:41 pmRadio call12 min666483ce
4:52 pmRadio call8 mina8315a37
5:31 pmRadio call11 minf796c9dc
5:32 pmRadio call16 min447acbb2
5:46 pmRadio call17 min3e015c6e
6:02 pmRadio call10 min0188efb9
6:02 pmRadio call12 min9990ef28
6:24 pmRadio call7 min4089bacd
6:31 pmRadio call13 minfea7216d
6:38 pmRadio call9 minb5c42862
6:42 pmRadio call7 minc4e02b1a
6:50 pmRadio call15 minf94a726f
6:53 pmRadio call7 minef2b0062
7:11 pmRadio call12 min252c8e79
7:17 pmRadio call16 min742ec744
7:56 pmRadio call15 min7453174d
7:57 pmRadio call10 min33192a91
8:03 pmRadio call14 min913b8ca7
8:27 pmRadio call7 minf14555c8
8:40 pmRadio call6 min276953b7
9:22 pmRadio call7 min68108385

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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