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Los Angeles, California · one day

Monday 3 August 2026

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

37

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:43 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:17 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 37 times on Monday 3 August 2026, the first at 12:43 pm and the last at 9:17 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 call92%
  2. Call for service5%
  3. 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
12:43 pmRadio call15 min9bab1fca
1:20 pmRadio call15 min5662706d
1:40 pmRadio call12 minc6bb2823
1:46 pmRadio call11 mindedb658d
1:51 pmRadio call4 min9bda3ed0
2:15 pmRadio call16 min67a48d7f
2:21 pmRadio call19 min0160d2dd
2:36 pmRadio call19 min6e12026f
2:56 pmRadio call6 min291a6838
3:22 pmRadio call8 min487ae451
3:30 pmRadio call12 min47a70852
3:50 pmRadio call7 minf554ea74
3:58 pmRadio call17 min462fc7b5
4:09 pmRadio call21 min8767631a
4:27 pmRadio call15 min46b7aeb6
4:39 pmRadio call6 minaac19103
4:50 pmRadio call22 min9690cf95
5:08 pmRadio call23 minef5a866d
5:12 pmRadio call15 mina1a60f94
5:28 pmRadio call21 min553ddad8
5:34 pmRadio call16 minb05f8106
5:49 pmRadio call22 min53bac271
5:50 pmPatrol support14 minea472dfd
6:08 pmCall for service24 min9d3e9582
6:11 pmRadio call12 min081db866
6:27 pmRadio call24 mina79ffdd2
6:30 pmRadio call6 min4f075e24
7:19 pmRadio call14 min613c94f9
7:28 pmRadio call14 min98bcb339
7:47 pmRadio call21 min0b2d867e
7:49 pmRadio call19 min648cdc51
8:00 pmRadio call19 minbd7d5aee
8:15 pmRadio call18 min59f30a91
8:22 pmCall for service17 mina2df600a
8:37 pmRadio call10 min31061de0
8:57 pmRadio call6 min5cfd6a39
9:17 pmRadio call9 min62ff789e

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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