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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, November 2025

A neighborhood page. 38 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in November 2025.

38

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

38

of them in November 2025.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Chinatown 38 times between 1 November 2025 and 29 November 2025, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 November 2025.

38 of the 38 drawable flights that crossed the area in November 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

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

5% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PST).

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 38 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call76%
  2. Patrol support13%
  3. Not stated8%
  4. Call for service3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, November 2025

DateTakeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Nov 20257:42 pmNot stated17 min5e49ca37
Sat 1 Nov 20257:54 pmPatrol support12 min626837ce
Sat 1 Nov 202510:24 pmNot stated19 min3476501d
Sat 1 Nov 202511:28 pmPatrol support17 min8520e285
Tue 4 Nov 20253:02 pmRadio call10 min08b4f283
Thu 6 Nov 20259:57 pmRadio call13 minba31681a
Fri 7 Nov 20253:04 pmRadio call18 min7e04488e
Sat 8 Nov 20252:22 pmRadio call7 min28eab823
Sat 8 Nov 20253:15 pmRadio call19 mind6299754
Sat 8 Nov 20254:49 pmRadio call15 minac8d5e99
Sat 8 Nov 20258:20 pmRadio call13 minb37fe114
Wed 12 Nov 20251:21 pmRadio call8 minbea2725a
Wed 12 Nov 20253:11 pmRadio call10 mineff57fef
Wed 12 Nov 20254:14 pmRadio call10 min0f6855dd
Wed 12 Nov 20254:55 pmRadio call19 min530a0cd5
Thu 13 Nov 20253:43 pmRadio call19 min4e9707fd
Thu 13 Nov 20256:24 pmRadio call15 minb6739288
Fri 14 Nov 20255:59 pmPatrol support18 min66e668fb
Sat 15 Nov 20255:09 pmRadio call14 mince010ffc
Tue 18 Nov 20252:05 pmRadio call12 min0b4da44e
Tue 18 Nov 20252:37 pmRadio call15 mine176f36f
Tue 18 Nov 20254:03 pmRadio call14 minb03272d6
Tue 18 Nov 20254:16 pmPatrol support16 min1753ee1d
Tue 18 Nov 20255:39 pmRadio call16 min97b4b0c3
Thu 20 Nov 202511:25 amRadio call20 min8b537436
Thu 20 Nov 202511:43 amRadio call20 min4a435f64
Thu 20 Nov 202512:03 pmRadio call18 min526ce7ee
Thu 20 Nov 202512:15 pmRadio call10 min39949029
Fri 21 Nov 20252:58 pmPatrol support14 min46228bd2
Fri 21 Nov 20254:42 pmCall for service13 minb7c673b5
Sat 22 Nov 202511:08 amRadio call12 mina99f4bab
Tue 25 Nov 20251:33 pmRadio call18 minc331df7f
Tue 25 Nov 20251:49 pmNot stated18 minf3c36d2d
Sat 29 Nov 20251:32 pmRadio call19 minb1f132fd
Sat 29 Nov 20252:12 pmRadio call16 min41566edf
Sat 29 Nov 20254:53 pmRadio call20 min8415496e
Sat 29 Nov 20255:17 pmRadio call18 min4a3cbc2b
Sat 29 Nov 20255:28 pmRadio call10 minb6a29e7f

All 38 flights in November 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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