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Los Angeles, California

Lake Balboa, December 2025

A neighborhood page. 4 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

4

drone flights crossed Lake Balboa.

4

of them in December 2025.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lake Balboa 4 times between 31 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.

4 of the 4 drawable flights that crossed the area in December 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.
Lake BalboaOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

100% 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 4 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service75%
  2. Radio call25%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 31 Dec 202511:06 pmCall for service18 mind64fabe2
Wed 31 Dec 202511:22 pmCall for service16 min7b73aa07
Wed 31 Dec 202511:27 pmCall for service18 mineb946a5e
Wed 31 Dec 202511:35 pmRadio call15 min74bdfa11

All 4 flights in December 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. "Lake Balboa" 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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