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Los Angeles, California

Chinatown, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 28 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

28

drone flights crossed Chinatown.

28

of them in January 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Chinatown 28 times between 2 January 2026 and 31 January 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 January 2026.

28 of the 28 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 2026. 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

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

0% 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 28 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call86%
  2. Patrol support14%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Jan 20263:49 pmRadio call20 mine30ba26f
Fri 2 Jan 20264:01 pmRadio call20 minbd2d06d2
Sat 3 Jan 202610:53 amPatrol support8 min116e7cf2
Sat 3 Jan 202612:59 pmRadio call20 min68bd5fc2
Sat 3 Jan 20261:11 pmRadio call20 min55e7e3f8
Wed 7 Jan 202611:52 amRadio call18 min6fe73b10
Wed 7 Jan 202612:03 pmPatrol support15 minb05c43a7
Thu 8 Jan 202611:01 amRadio call14 min98cfdcac
Fri 9 Jan 202612:14 pmRadio call18 mina90e730b
Fri 9 Jan 20263:21 pmRadio call16 minb985c63f
Sat 10 Jan 202612:15 pmRadio call14 mina40770a5
Tue 13 Jan 20264:10 pmRadio call16 mind1831609
Wed 14 Jan 202611:08 amRadio call8 minda7fe63c
Wed 14 Jan 20261:12 pmRadio call17 mind40ad275
Thu 15 Jan 20263:35 pmRadio call8 min862b4a53
Fri 16 Jan 202612:44 pmRadio call9 min0c0e7230
Fri 16 Jan 20262:00 pmRadio call13 min51d4bfc3
Sun 18 Jan 20263:40 pmPatrol support21 mincf8413ad
Sun 18 Jan 20263:48 pmPatrol support20 mina7985af1
Tue 20 Jan 20262:36 pmRadio call13 min1e15df57
Wed 21 Jan 20261:48 pmRadio call9 minc383f8fe
Tue 27 Jan 202611:46 amRadio call14 min74955b34
Tue 27 Jan 20261:46 pmRadio call12 mineec0c6ff
Fri 30 Jan 20262:40 pmRadio call17 min38c887f8
Fri 30 Jan 20264:14 pmRadio call9 min0780bb8b
Sat 31 Jan 202612:53 pmRadio call9 min8ba3ed37
Sat 31 Jan 20263:46 pmRadio call8 minfb3e1cbd
Sat 31 Jan 20264:07 pmRadio call16 minc51fddd0

All 28 flights in January 2026. 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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