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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, December 2025

A neighborhood page. 33 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

33

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

33

of them in December 2025.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Chinatown 33 times between 3 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.

33 of the 33 drawable flights that crossed the area in December 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.

3% 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 33 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call67%
  2. Patrol support21%
  3. Call for service9%
  4. Training and testing3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 3 Dec 20253:29 pmRadio call12 mincb70ad92
Thu 4 Dec 20252:48 pmTraining and testing16 min67a8979a
Fri 5 Dec 202510:43 amRadio call15 min8bbbb1ac
Sat 6 Dec 202511:11 amRadio call14 min7bd6ffa8
Sat 6 Dec 20251:52 pmRadio call8 min0829ffd2
Sat 6 Dec 20253:07 pmRadio call22 minfb2cc466
Sat 6 Dec 20255:08 pmRadio call14 min97f5ae0e
Thu 11 Dec 20253:30 pmRadio call18 min61a57fcb
Sat 13 Dec 202512:38 pmRadio call12 min3b61482c
Sat 13 Dec 202512:51 pmRadio call10 min1575dbf7
Tue 16 Dec 20255:23 pmRadio call16 min09ebf10c
Wed 17 Dec 20251:00 pmRadio call10 min9087540a
Wed 17 Dec 20253:44 pmCall for service19 min5359f918
Wed 17 Dec 20256:42 pmRadio call14 mindd8b2dd1
Thu 18 Dec 202511:04 amRadio call20 min5b277b53
Fri 19 Dec 20252:12 pmRadio call13 min1d6ac2f3
Sat 20 Dec 20253:32 pmPatrol support21 min2510fa56
Sat 20 Dec 20253:49 pmPatrol support20 min3915c019
Sat 20 Dec 20254:33 pmPatrol support21 min569355d5
Sat 20 Dec 20254:45 pmRadio call22 minc43eed2f
Sat 20 Dec 20255:01 pmCall for service19 min913e2de7
Tue 23 Dec 202512:26 pmRadio call14 min88ffed00
Tue 23 Dec 20251:00 pmPatrol support22 min543481dd
Tue 23 Dec 20251:11 pmPatrol support17 minc7ddaaea
Tue 23 Dec 20252:45 pmPatrol support22 mind1ca57bf
Tue 23 Dec 20252:58 pmCall for service14 minabbba4d3
Sat 27 Dec 202510:39 amRadio call12 min5214aa62
Sat 27 Dec 202512:44 pmRadio call18 min8d8abd2c
Sat 27 Dec 20251:39 pmPatrol support18 mincbcc4101
Sat 27 Dec 20254:18 pmRadio call19 mine0c5b473
Sat 27 Dec 20254:25 pmRadio call10 min4f344d51
Wed 31 Dec 20255:34 pmRadio call11 min9c2327fa
Wed 31 Dec 202510:15 pmRadio call16 min48bbdda1

All 33 flights in December 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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