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Los Angeles, California · one day

Monday 12 October 2026

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

41

drone flights over Los Angeles that day.

1:22 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:59 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Los Angeles police drones flew 41 times on Monday 12 October 2026, the first at 1:22 pm and the last at 10:59 pm PDT, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.

41 drawable flights of 41. 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 call83%
  2. Patrol support15%
  3. Call for service2%

Flights, in order

41 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
1:22 pmPatrol support12 mina73fe2fd
1:28 pmPatrol support16 min9b9956c8
1:35 pmPatrol support17 min28937196
1:45 pmPatrol support12 min5cb41aa9
1:52 pmPatrol support14 minfa1b7405
1:59 pmPatrol support5 min40d44784
2:53 pmRadio call17 min2ca3e80e
3:35 pmRadio call18 minc348c40e
3:46 pmRadio call8 min6f9621db
3:57 pmRadio call7 mincd847644
4:06 pmRadio call10 minede024a2
4:08 pmRadio call9 min30c3c64a
4:31 pmRadio call13 mind936c8a0
4:41 pmRadio call11 minf9a1471e
4:57 pmRadio call12 min9bf39876
5:10 pmRadio call10 min7da80867
5:34 pmRadio call9 minc13bbed7
5:52 pmRadio call6 min2e030b5f
6:05 pmRadio call10 min3cc46d34
6:10 pmRadio call6 min1cdb49a5
6:29 pmRadio call12 mind6efc7bf
6:39 pmRadio call19 min218278b7
6:58 pmRadio call15 min542c2089
7:14 pmRadio call9 min72a9b786
7:15 pmRadio call15 min89badd8d
7:57 pmRadio call10 mina27105d6
8:13 pmRadio call9 min89a87825
8:19 pmRadio call9 minbb94a9a9
8:28 pmRadio call14 min5e4f9571
8:38 pmRadio call3 min37c95b0f
8:40 pmRadio call14 minb918c971
8:48 pmRadio call7 mine16f3c17
8:59 pmRadio call8 minf02b01b1
9:12 pmRadio call10 min4e2b1a07
9:12 pmRadio call17 mineb9b0fe2
9:38 pmRadio call6 mine1546e6e
9:48 pmRadio call9 min125974ca
10:05 pmRadio call14 min85bb9501
10:25 pmCall for service2 mindb88f4a0
10:44 pmRadio call19 min19335915
10:59 pmRadio call10 min723d3f35

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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