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Los Angeles, California · one day

Wednesday 12 August 2026

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

36

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:04 pm

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

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 36 times on Wednesday 12 August 2026, the first at 12:04 pm and the last at 9:34 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

36 drawable flights of 36. 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 service6%
  3. Patrol support6%

Flights, in order

36 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
12:04 pmCall for service16 min0551bc39
12:17 pmRadio call16 minea952395
2:01 pmRadio call11 minc1810bd8
2:05 pmRadio call12 min3595c55b
2:17 pmRadio call8 min514f425e
2:18 pmRadio call7 min38973c09
2:25 pmPatrol support22 minb907b610
3:14 pmRadio call15 minfcc60b06
3:20 pmRadio call13 minf58879a8
3:22 pmRadio call11 mind9e2dcff
3:59 pmRadio call17 min1ad56854
4:09 pmRadio call18 min83f41830
4:13 pmPatrol support14 minbc1fa89a
4:53 pmRadio call13 min3c14f258
4:55 pmRadio call6 min201d377a
5:03 pmRadio call12 min15ff8421
5:34 pmRadio call19 min463c777a
5:40 pmRadio call7 min5f339bc2
5:44 pmRadio call13 min47b5a8af
5:51 pmRadio call14 min32bcd1f1
5:58 pmRadio call14 min3e641418
6:00 pmRadio call10 minceb90c55
6:11 pmRadio call15 min8bfa03d8
6:12 pmRadio call9 min1419a40b
6:17 pmRadio call13 min1a36e85c
6:22 pmRadio call19 mine44404b0
6:36 pmRadio call11 mine075f2e5
7:33 pmCall for service10 min680b0526
7:46 pmRadio call6 mind5f5f5e8
8:05 pmRadio call9 min8a6063e2
8:18 pmRadio call9 minfe293507
8:34 pmRadio call16 min43c3006a
8:53 pmRadio call13 min7aa9d398
9:07 pmRadio call15 min1544beca
9:30 pmRadio call12 minf27f62ba
9:34 pmRadio call11 mind37ab135

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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