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Los Angeles, California

Downtown, July 2025

A neighborhood page. 20 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2025.

20

drone flights crossed Downtown.

20

of them in July 2025.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 20 times between 29 July 2025 and 31 July 2025, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 July 2025.

20 of the 20 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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.
DowntownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

3 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 20 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing100%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2025

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 29 Jul 20253:38 pmTraining and testing5 min0fa6b0c0
Tue 29 Jul 20253:45 pmTraining and testing1 min 06 sb288e772
Wed 30 Jul 202510:14 amTraining and testing5 mine0583b2b
Wed 30 Jul 202511:30 amTraining and testing5 min9fa87248
Wed 30 Jul 202511:36 amTraining and testing3 mincda08a4b
Wed 30 Jul 202512:30 pmTraining and testing5 minc3f6a741
Wed 30 Jul 202512:59 pmTraining and testing1 min 49 s73b4d168
Wed 30 Jul 20251:05 pmTraining and testing10 min83ac2336
Wed 30 Jul 20251:32 pmTraining and testing17 minaf8ba258
Wed 30 Jul 20251:51 pmTraining and testing1 min 04 sd98b476a
Wed 30 Jul 20251:54 pmTraining and testing1 min 09 s795271c8
Wed 30 Jul 20251:57 pmTraining and testing12 min2164deb2
Wed 30 Jul 20252:23 pmTraining and testing16 min9c2cfb98
Wed 30 Jul 20252:51 pmTraining and testing18 mind77108ad
Wed 30 Jul 20253:24 pmTraining and testing11 min79d72f03
Thu 31 Jul 20251:58 pmTraining and testing14 min78751ffc
Thu 31 Jul 20252:22 pmTraining and testing17 mina4c0837c
Thu 31 Jul 20252:52 pmTraining and testing13 minde8f8d5c
Thu 31 Jul 20253:09 pmTraining and testing14 mineecd2014
Thu 31 Jul 20253:26 pmTraining and testing6 min347e67b8

All 20 flights in July 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. "Downtown" 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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