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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, September 2025

A neighborhood page. 24 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2025.

24

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

24

of them in September 2025.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Chinatown 24 times between 6 September 2025 and 27 September 2025, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 September 2025.

24 of the 24 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

5 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 24 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call83%
  2. Patrol support8%
  3. Call for service4%
  4. Training and testing4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2025

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 6 Sep 20253:57 pmRadio call10 min3bb2dcc4
Wed 10 Sep 20257:22 pmRadio call14 min24f19a73
Thu 11 Sep 20253:37 pmRadio call13 min016e8c97
Thu 11 Sep 20256:03 pmPatrol support21 min6135324a
Thu 11 Sep 20256:23 pmPatrol support15 min09c581c1
Fri 12 Sep 20255:19 pmCall for service16 min4889b288
Fri 12 Sep 20256:01 pmTraining and testing11 min5b7127a3
Fri 12 Sep 20257:49 pmRadio call10 min18186070
Sat 13 Sep 20257:33 pmRadio call10 min94268192
Sat 13 Sep 20258:16 pmRadio call9 min2adb8382
Tue 16 Sep 20255:53 pmRadio call14 min8070ddfd
Wed 17 Sep 20251:21 pmRadio call15 min7465acc0
Fri 19 Sep 20254:23 pmRadio call19 min0ac72287
Fri 19 Sep 20257:47 pmRadio call6 min8c8b026b
Sat 20 Sep 20257:10 pmRadio call8 min7f59e599
Tue 23 Sep 20256:28 pmRadio call20 minccf14065
Tue 23 Sep 20259:29 pmRadio call13 minf91381f1
Wed 24 Sep 20253:50 pmRadio call13 min97be43bc
Thu 25 Sep 20255:44 pmRadio call17 min8f144925
Fri 26 Sep 20251:40 pmRadio call8 mina15faaa7
Fri 26 Sep 20253:37 pmRadio call19 min049877fc
Fri 26 Sep 20256:57 pmRadio call14 min0436b24f
Sat 27 Sep 20256:56 pmRadio call6 min828b288b
Sat 27 Sep 20257:25 pmRadio call18 mina31e4311

All 24 flights in September 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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