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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, August 2025

A neighborhood page. 19 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2025.

19

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

19

of them in August 2025.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Chinatown 19 times between 6 August 2025 and 29 August 2025, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2025.

19 of the 19 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 2025. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
ChinatownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

4 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 19 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call84%
  2. Patrol support16%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2025

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 6 Aug 20252:24 pmRadio call19 min4f551427
Thu 7 Aug 202510:49 amRadio call18 minfbaf7e50
Thu 7 Aug 20251:27 pmRadio call15 mind990b522
Thu 7 Aug 20252:22 pmRadio call11 min78d5c8f6
Thu 7 Aug 20254:47 pmRadio call11 minf296eabd
Fri 8 Aug 20253:51 pmRadio call9 minb3ab2ecc
Fri 8 Aug 20255:04 pmRadio call8 min643f93ba
Fri 8 Aug 20256:32 pmRadio call8 mind4e5dc99
Thu 14 Aug 20251:40 pmRadio call13 min82236712
Fri 15 Aug 20256:04 pmPatrol support8 mind545defc
Wed 20 Aug 20252:51 pmRadio call21 minc1e7be0e
Wed 20 Aug 20256:47 pmPatrol support19 min115cb062
Wed 20 Aug 20257:00 pmPatrol support25 min9c023653
Wed 27 Aug 20254:06 pmRadio call13 min71abebb9
Thu 28 Aug 20251:05 pmRadio call17 min5ddc8d0d
Fri 29 Aug 20252:50 pmRadio call17 min1656e450
Fri 29 Aug 20254:47 pmRadio call8 min1da74585
Fri 29 Aug 20256:38 pmRadio call15 min7b494438
Fri 29 Aug 20257:42 pmRadio call8 min4c365fb2

All 19 flights in August 2025. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

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.
  • Boundary. "Chinatown" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Los Angeles DataLA (LA Times Neighborhood Boundaries), licence "CC-BY-4.0".
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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