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Los Angeles, California · one day

Sunday 13 September 2026

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

37

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

1:50 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:17 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 37 times on Sunday 13 September 2026, the first at 1:50 pm and the last at 10:17 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 call78%
  2. Patrol support14%
  3. Call for service5%
  4. Not stated3%

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
1:50 pmPatrol support16 minf5c5d334
2:16 pmPatrol support21 mina4e9e0d7
2:16 pmPatrol support15 min5c84eca5
2:37 pmPatrol support12 minf6fc13c2
3:28 pmRadio call11 min01568c90
4:13 pmNot stated5 min7f5a1e22
4:23 pmRadio call19 minac7092c0
4:38 pmRadio call4 min06f47452
4:39 pmPatrol support16 minfc3fd82a
4:48 pmRadio call10 min07d537a2
4:51 pmRadio call17 min39c6f77a
5:02 pmRadio call11 min11d3a2d1
5:12 pmRadio call13 min1a48f744
5:26 pmRadio call16 min1aac2185
5:27 pmRadio call9 min157122ef
5:47 pmCall for service17 min3b4637ed
5:48 pmRadio call16 minc4dfb261
6:04 pmCall for service18 minc2583c29
6:07 pmRadio call13 min1ea859f5
6:14 pmRadio call6 min6cb89b81
6:35 pmRadio call5 minfefe6ca4
6:41 pmRadio call9 minec4fa9b7
6:57 pmRadio call18 min14ed505f
7:12 pmRadio call13 min537260b1
7:37 pmRadio call12 min46f26317
8:00 pmRadio call9 min60c69778
8:06 pmRadio call13 mina8be1128
8:17 pmRadio call16 min21476c41
8:29 pmRadio call7 min3596246a
8:44 pmRadio call13 min6afe47ab
8:52 pmRadio call6 min9bc46e6e
9:00 pmRadio call10 minb2b7ef00
9:16 pmRadio call12 minccc17843
9:26 pmRadio call16 min752ff135
9:28 pmRadio call12 min265dc1f4
9:38 pmRadio call17 min6fa9bd38
10:17 pmRadio call11 minc6c45780

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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