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Los Angeles, California · one day

Sunday 5 July 2026

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

48

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:00 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:34 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 48 times on Sunday 5 July 2026, the first at 12:00 am and the last at 9:34 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

48 drawable flights of 48. 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 call98%
  2. Call for service2%

Flights, in order

48 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
12:00 amRadio call20 min80695161
12:02 amRadio call13 mine36696f3
12:05 amRadio call12 min47d69150
12:12 amRadio call6 min023f6167
12:20 amRadio call16 min261c37e2
12:22 amRadio call10 min8e41a194
12:23 amRadio call12 min3fba4f44
12:34 amRadio call10 mine008fbbe
12:40 amRadio call3 minaa116dfe
12:23 pmRadio call11 minbc7df55c
1:34 pmRadio call12 mind3ff007d
1:47 pmRadio call5 min2c81dee3
2:03 pmRadio call8 minc439b097
2:13 pmRadio call14 minf444fa04
2:18 pmRadio call15 min12887b9f
2:45 pmRadio call10 minc4295108
3:05 pmRadio call14 min3d9402d3
3:18 pmRadio call11 min57854695
3:41 pmRadio call17 minab2eda66
4:00 pmRadio call14 min1bc54b40
4:10 pmRadio call12 min0e2e1425
4:17 pmRadio call13 min9e0444a4
4:42 pmRadio call9 minc65aa50c
4:51 pmRadio call6 min02e379de
5:06 pmRadio call9 min9abf2427
5:20 pmRadio call13 min866d5cad
5:26 pmRadio call7 min9ca0b231
5:39 pmRadio call3 minf0897bc9
6:02 pmRadio call9 min51b05936
6:20 pmRadio call5 min498a5a5f
6:28 pmRadio call15 mina87cf296
6:38 pmCall for service5 min215e759a
6:44 pmRadio call15 min8488299d
6:51 pmRadio call7 minfe68a735
7:05 pmRadio call14 min6b20838c
7:11 pmRadio call12 minc23b6c4b
7:27 pmRadio call12 minaf52c4df
7:38 pmRadio call12 min2c328b62
7:41 pmRadio call9 min82c0b192
7:55 pmRadio call4 mine005125c
8:10 pmRadio call18 mine2ad4572
8:11 pmRadio call14 min7009efc5
8:29 pmRadio call17 mindb670ceb
8:34 pmRadio call8 minf8e0ea07
8:49 pmRadio call15 min5887aa55
9:08 pmRadio call16 min55a2a5b3
9:10 pmRadio call12 minfeb3120e
9:34 pmRadio call16 minc1ec3448

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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