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Los Angeles, California

Mid-City, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 56 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

56

drone flights crossed Mid-City.

56

of them in January 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Mid-City 56 times between 2 January 2026 and 23 January 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 23 January 2026.

56 of the 56 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.
Mid-CityOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

11 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 56 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call66%
  2. Training and testing30%
  3. Patrol support4%

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 202612:11 pmTraining and testing2 mina64b7eda
Fri 2 Jan 202612:35 pmTraining and testing2 min99877fda
Fri 2 Jan 20261:10 pmRadio call15 minbe56c468
Fri 2 Jan 20262:26 pmPatrol support22 mineb4f0911
Fri 2 Jan 20262:38 pmPatrol support16 min41ee137f
Fri 2 Jan 20263:07 pmRadio call14 min63516cd4
Fri 2 Jan 20263:51 pmRadio call18 minec2b6bcf
Fri 2 Jan 20264:24 pmRadio call23 minb9727cc7
Fri 2 Jan 20265:12 pmRadio call15 mindd3a0898
Sat 3 Jan 202611:29 amTraining and testing2 min40690c4e
Sat 3 Jan 202611:37 amTraining and testing1 min 51 sfd7c913d
Sat 3 Jan 202612:40 pmRadio call11 minb32f8565
Sat 3 Jan 202612:44 pmTraining and testing19 s38f50d65
Sat 3 Jan 20261:07 pmRadio call17 mine481c194
Tue 6 Jan 20261:46 pmRadio call6 min44fedb5a
Tue 6 Jan 20262:03 pmRadio call11 min5faf68b7
Tue 6 Jan 20262:12 pmRadio call12 minbf9d7dcc
Tue 6 Jan 20263:34 pmRadio call18 min06c9eed5
Tue 6 Jan 20264:24 pmRadio call8 min4a96db21
Tue 6 Jan 20264:57 pmRadio call20 mindc705e96
Tue 6 Jan 20265:13 pmRadio call20 min8b87a766
Thu 8 Jan 202611:32 amTraining and testing3 mina8428d7b
Thu 8 Jan 202612:02 pmRadio call1 min 05 s984900bd
Thu 8 Jan 20261:30 pmRadio call15 min8739eb81
Thu 8 Jan 20262:33 pmRadio call20 min25f7a690
Thu 8 Jan 20262:52 pmRadio call12 min2f53de65
Thu 8 Jan 20264:49 pmRadio call13 minccc650ba
Thu 15 Jan 202612:26 pmTraining and testing2 min665a10a7
Thu 15 Jan 202612:34 pmRadio call21 minafc0e26c
Thu 15 Jan 202612:53 pmRadio call12 min6c55c1b7
Fri 16 Jan 202612:02 pmTraining and testing2 min93478c2e
Fri 16 Jan 202612:08 pmTraining and testing3 minec96fcf9
Fri 16 Jan 20261:03 pmTraining and testing1 min 13 sdc9cca00
Fri 16 Jan 20261:05 pmTraining and testing51 s4a47fc57
Fri 16 Jan 20261:13 pmRadio call10 minc4efbd7d
Fri 16 Jan 20261:41 pmRadio call19 minc6ab2c68
Fri 16 Jan 20262:57 pmRadio call18 min47d5c26e
Fri 16 Jan 20264:48 pmRadio call23 mine8dd2941
Wed 21 Jan 202611:05 amTraining and testing1 min 53 sddc31400
Wed 21 Jan 202611:15 amTraining and testing1 min 59 s23ae86a5
Wed 21 Jan 202611:53 amRadio call17 mindc95ec42
Wed 21 Jan 202612:54 pmRadio call13 minbeacd214
Wed 21 Jan 20262:04 pmRadio call18 min2849f8ba
Wed 21 Jan 20262:52 pmRadio call12 min28db5b1e
Wed 21 Jan 20263:32 pmTraining and testing10 min8047e66e
Wed 21 Jan 20264:09 pmTraining and testing1 min 54 sceaa5f4f
Wed 21 Jan 20264:47 pmRadio call16 min8b6d2199
Fri 23 Jan 202611:40 amTraining and testing1 min 03 see1368e6
Fri 23 Jan 202611:44 amTraining and testing1 min 00 s6fe86439
Fri 23 Jan 202611:50 amRadio call19 mind485a357
Fri 23 Jan 202612:00 pmRadio call17 min6383bce4
Fri 23 Jan 202612:19 pmRadio call19 minc40ef0bd
Fri 23 Jan 202612:44 pmRadio call20 mine7672020
Fri 23 Jan 20261:22 pmRadio call20 min121bc2d7
Fri 23 Jan 20263:04 pmRadio call14 min7ad5b3ed
Fri 23 Jan 20263:18 pmRadio call11 minc7be83d6

All 56 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. "Mid-City" 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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