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Los Angeles, California

Historic South-Central, September 2025

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

12

drone flights crossed Historic South-Central.

12

of them in September 2025.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic South-Central 12 times between 5 September 2025 and 23 September 2025, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 23 September 2025.

12 of the 12 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.
Historic South-CentralOne 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 12 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call100%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2025

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 5 Sep 20252:20 pmRadio call19 minfb6686b6
Fri 5 Sep 20254:20 pmRadio call18 min176dfad0
Wed 10 Sep 20253:58 pmRadio call15 min1a94531d
Thu 11 Sep 202512:47 pmRadio call17 mind3b91086
Fri 12 Sep 20251:30 pmRadio call15 minf00e0b0c
Wed 17 Sep 20258:46 pmRadio call16 minb5509e32
Wed 17 Sep 20259:19 pmRadio call16 min7c45956e
Thu 18 Sep 20251:52 pmRadio call17 minfeba7411
Thu 18 Sep 20258:34 pmRadio call16 minb2af0785
Sat 20 Sep 20252:01 pmRadio call16 min6ba984ca
Sat 20 Sep 20254:22 pmRadio call13 min0d2420d1
Tue 23 Sep 20251:38 pmRadio call16 min63942628

All 12 flights in September 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. "Historic South-Central" 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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