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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, October 2025

A neighborhood page. 40 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

40

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

40

of them in October 2025.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Chinatown 40 times between 1 October 2025 and 30 October 2025, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2025.

40 of the 40 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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

9 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 40 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call82%
  2. Patrol support12%
  3. Training and testing2%
  4. Call for service2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Oct 20256:43 pmRadio call7 min682961f2
Thu 2 Oct 20254:20 pmRadio call9 min0a657d40
Fri 3 Oct 20252:57 pmRadio call9 min2d1c0162
Sat 4 Oct 20255:30 pmRadio call12 min8fe6365d
Tue 7 Oct 202512:05 pmRadio call15 minfd54c8d3
Wed 8 Oct 20253:47 pmRadio call11 minaee41cb8
Wed 8 Oct 20255:01 pmRadio call10 min2e0ff0cf
Thu 9 Oct 20252:17 pmPatrol support12 min44fafbc2
Thu 9 Oct 20254:12 pmRadio call14 min3b392502
Thu 9 Oct 20254:42 pmRadio call17 min99df839f
Thu 9 Oct 20255:05 pmRadio call13 min985f076e
Sat 11 Oct 20255:23 pmRadio call10 min7b7fe10d
Sat 11 Oct 20258:39 pmRadio call11 min3997f409
Wed 15 Oct 20251:11 pmPatrol support8 mindb5789bc
Wed 15 Oct 20253:29 pmPatrol support21 minc3723d6e
Wed 15 Oct 20253:39 pmRadio call12 minfce14d89
Thu 16 Oct 20258:53 pmRadio call10 min14f59dc9
Fri 17 Oct 20256:27 pmRadio call14 min993d8387
Fri 17 Oct 20256:54 pmTraining and testing12 min21c199c1
Sat 18 Oct 20253:17 pmPatrol support14 min28e926ae
Sat 18 Oct 20258:01 pmPatrol support22 min669463a2
Tue 21 Oct 20253:03 pmRadio call12 min789be74e
Tue 21 Oct 20253:42 pmRadio call12 minb9550634
Tue 21 Oct 20254:36 pmRadio call14 min7808f971
Tue 21 Oct 20255:00 pmRadio call14 minaa0f71d2
Wed 22 Oct 20255:15 pmRadio call7 min0935ef0e
Wed 22 Oct 20259:54 pmRadio call12 min63fcdad0
Thu 23 Oct 20253:56 pmRadio call16 min341a584c
Thu 23 Oct 20255:30 pmRadio call18 minc9516ab6
Thu 23 Oct 20259:57 pmRadio call10 min89cd83a4
Fri 24 Oct 20255:19 pmRadio call13 min8a6d5b54
Fri 24 Oct 20257:54 pmRadio call14 min506e49bb
Sat 25 Oct 20252:06 pmRadio call10 minfc4a8ea3
Tue 28 Oct 20253:25 pmRadio call17 minb130afc3
Tue 28 Oct 20257:02 pmRadio call16 min1b015250
Tue 28 Oct 20259:11 pmRadio call15 mindce34bff
Wed 29 Oct 20255:50 pmRadio call18 min194d63a0
Wed 29 Oct 20259:07 pmRadio call15 min0640abe9
Thu 30 Oct 20253:54 pmRadio call7 min7245c813
Thu 30 Oct 20254:18 pmCall for service17 min7eadc8e5

All 40 flights in October 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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