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Los Angeles, California

Historic South-Central, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 9 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

9

drone flights crossed Historic South-Central.

9

of them in January 2026.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic South-Central 9 times between 9 January 2026 and 30 January 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 January 2026.

9 of the 9 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.
Historic South-CentralOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

2 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 9 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call78%
  2. Patrol support22%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 9 Jan 20265:11 pmPatrol support18 min6aa1664e
Thu 15 Jan 20263:17 pmPatrol support17 min4ef11776
Wed 21 Jan 202612:13 pmRadio call19 min39d7fc1c
Wed 21 Jan 20263:29 pmRadio call19 min5a8bded5
Wed 21 Jan 20264:16 pmRadio call13 minfc778226
Thu 22 Jan 202612:44 pmRadio call19 min4d2e1c58
Sat 24 Jan 20262:07 pmRadio call19 min63ddf190
Fri 30 Jan 202612:52 pmRadio call8 min78a0f2e4
Fri 30 Jan 20261:31 pmRadio call15 minf22f1e98

All 9 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. "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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