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Los Angeles, California · one day

Sunday 12 July 2026

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

37

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

1:31 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:06 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 37 times on Sunday 12 July 2026, the first at 1:31 pm and the last at 9:06 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

37 drawable flights of 37. 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 call97%
  2. Patrol support3%

Flights, in order

37 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
1:31 pmRadio call10 minba953a2c
1:36 pmRadio call6 mindfcf32de
1:47 pmRadio call14 min368a91de
1:50 pmRadio call6 min95f6c894
2:10 pmRadio call20 min4031b6cc
2:23 pmRadio call5 minad916891
2:40 pmRadio call10 min4099d8d3
2:44 pmRadio call20 minc8f8ffbd
2:52 pmRadio call10 min3158265d
3:02 pmRadio call19 min27c42342
3:18 pmRadio call4 min86419a93
3:39 pmRadio call15 minfdb56ed2
3:41 pmRadio call11 min8c55e7e4
3:58 pmRadio call7 min987e81da
3:58 pmRadio call17 mine3f71ae1
4:13 pmRadio call12 minc4cc2822
4:17 pmRadio call17 minca80ada8
4:30 pmRadio call17 min790f5ed9
4:54 pmRadio call11 min3a28a1e8
4:55 pmRadio call6 min40e1cc53
5:15 pmRadio call10 min02e74884
5:29 pmRadio call10 mine4a5e8c4
5:44 pmRadio call15 mina230b13d
5:57 pmRadio call10 min8d1b5a1d
6:10 pmRadio call15 min4c5d8376
6:18 pmRadio call13 minc8986f7f
6:28 pmPatrol support16 mina7e2c020
6:50 pmRadio call18 min6a3482bf
6:52 pmRadio call11 minb318b6dc
7:11 pmRadio call6 mine5bcecb3
7:20 pmRadio call8 min398e7ce2
7:20 pmRadio call14 min2b81997f
7:34 pmRadio call17 minec752fb6
7:35 pmRadio call15 min46fee7f9
8:03 pmRadio call14 min8c870abe
8:36 pmRadio call11 min78274f34
9:06 pmRadio call18 min6e643ec3

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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