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Los Angeles, California

Echo Park, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 29 of the 12,234 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

29

drone flights crossed Echo Park.

29

of them in January 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Echo Park 29 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.

29 of the 29 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.
Echo ParkOne 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 29 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call93%
  2. Patrol support3%
  3. Not stated3%

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 202612:23 pmRadio call20 minc26f1b5b
Fri 2 Jan 20262:50 pmPatrol support20 minb3226436
Fri 2 Jan 20264:40 pmRadio call13 minc0c8ea1e
Fri 2 Jan 20265:34 pmRadio call21 min15139a73
Sat 3 Jan 202612:40 pmNot stated14 min48255cd6
Wed 7 Jan 20261:42 pmRadio call11 minf3b70401
Wed 7 Jan 20261:54 pmRadio call17 min97c7da67
Fri 9 Jan 20263:47 pmRadio call19 min5e3c582c
Sat 10 Jan 202611:32 amRadio call12 min404865e0
Sat 10 Jan 20263:20 pmRadio call19 mina2ad0396
Sat 10 Jan 20263:22 pmRadio call19 min04151999
Tue 13 Jan 20263:53 pmRadio call18 mine18f6ff2
Tue 13 Jan 20264:10 pmRadio call16 mind1831609
Wed 14 Jan 202612:01 pmRadio call18 min288edc36
Wed 14 Jan 20263:04 pmRadio call11 min5d2dee01
Wed 14 Jan 20263:27 pmRadio call19 min360765aa
Wed 14 Jan 20263:39 pmRadio call10 min55b9ef41
Fri 16 Jan 20261:35 pmRadio call20 min031bf280
Sat 17 Jan 202611:05 amRadio call11 mine0768c1e
Wed 21 Jan 20264:33 pmRadio call17 min1d8b63c5
Sat 24 Jan 202610:52 amRadio call14 min105e94ec
Sat 24 Jan 202610:55 amRadio call10 min9bf4faf9
Sat 24 Jan 20262:46 pmRadio call16 minb71456ff
Sat 24 Jan 20262:47 pmRadio call11 min939cb3ff
Tue 27 Jan 20266:37 pmRadio call12 min73ee9851
Wed 28 Jan 202612:07 pmRadio call9 min677cbb26
Wed 28 Jan 20265:45 pmRadio call12 minae194c39
Sat 31 Jan 20261:24 pmRadio call14 minf6c87356
Sat 31 Jan 20264:52 pmRadio call14 minf846ff65

All 29 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, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Echo Park" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Los Angeles DataLA (LA Times Neighborhood Boundaries), licence recorded as "CC-BY-4.0", in the place layer file for Los Angeles.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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