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Los Angeles, California · one day

Saturday 22 August 2026

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

59

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

12:40 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:23 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 59 times on Saturday 22 August 2026, the first at 12:40 pm and the last at 9:23 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

59 drawable flights of 59. 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 call88%
  2. Call for service8%
  3. Patrol support3%

Flights, in order

59 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 call9 min7fbddd6e
12:40 pmRadio call9 min877b1ddd
12:57 pmRadio call10 mine6d41c7a
1:00 pmRadio call11 minb1083a11
1:16 pmRadio call15 min5cf9225e
1:20 pmRadio call18 min62826107
1:21 pmRadio call9 min50ce905f
1:24 pmRadio call16 min327b4ece
1:33 pmRadio call12 minde4429be
1:54 pmRadio call19 min4b7d1514
1:55 pmRadio call11 minfb3083b5
2:05 pmRadio call6 min9140500f
2:06 pmRadio call14 min63ad756d
2:09 pmRadio call10 min2d94cffc
2:20 pmRadio call16 min674a33e3
2:35 pmRadio call15 minf7fcb6fa
2:42 pmRadio call13 min26579d32
3:08 pmRadio call21 minb4b146f8
3:21 pmRadio call17 min10da56e5
3:21 pmRadio call18 min100202b2
3:28 pmRadio call11 min1529c39e
3:35 pmRadio call11 minf9da575e
3:50 pmRadio call4 min33c66b36
4:04 pmRadio call10 mineb175de3
4:07 pmRadio call6 min2354a845
4:21 pmRadio call18 minb191752c
4:25 pmRadio call9 minb1f13905
4:35 pmPatrol support7 minf0703b5d
4:42 pmRadio call15 min2e782b0a
4:52 pmRadio call12 min940bfa21
4:59 pmRadio call9 min5d57ccc5
5:01 pmRadio call13 mindc7e26b3
5:19 pmRadio call8 min901d933c
5:19 pmRadio call9 min63942c55
5:31 pmRadio call11 min8e2b53e3
5:37 pmRadio call10 minaef062f5
5:40 pmRadio call13 minded28c99
5:54 pmRadio call15 mind1f9c5fb
6:18 pmCall for service9 min08df0459
6:29 pmRadio call14 mind40aa466
6:30 pmPatrol support15 min60cfb02f
6:46 pmRadio call14 mina3254282
6:54 pmRadio call18 min6e5dcb3f
6:57 pmRadio call10 min5b2a3821
7:05 pmRadio call16 min8fa330ce
7:10 pmCall for service6 min19d94bc0
7:12 pmCall for service12 min599b3a01
7:18 pmCall for service14 min76a2e471
7:26 pmCall for service10 min4940b659
7:40 pmRadio call14 mine090f5c0
7:41 pmRadio call10 min033f279f
8:08 pmRadio call10 min23387cde
8:12 pmRadio call16 mina0de9bd2
8:20 pmRadio call9 min8ca0a1e3
8:33 pmRadio call16 min6367fae0
8:55 pmRadio call16 mineeadd0d9
8:59 pmRadio call12 mina5cbcb50
9:03 pmRadio call11 min2a771dcb
9:23 pmRadio call6 minbcd64299

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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