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Los Angeles, California

Pico-Union, December 2025

A neighborhood page. 33 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

33

drone flights crossed Pico-Union.

33

of them in December 2025.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Pico-Union 33 times between 3 December 2025 and 30 December 2025, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 December 2025.

33 of the 33 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.
Pico-UnionOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

8 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 33 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call82%
  2. Training and testing15%
  3. Patrol support3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 3 Dec 20251:10 pmRadio call13 min3e26005a
Wed 3 Dec 20252:08 pmRadio call12 min45b137c5
Wed 3 Dec 20254:14 pmRadio call14 min8fd2bdaf
Wed 3 Dec 20254:32 pmRadio call11 mine8a81761
Wed 3 Dec 20255:36 pmRadio call18 min123b3997
Thu 4 Dec 20251:17 pmPatrol support11 minb3d8d005
Thu 4 Dec 20252:45 pmRadio call9 min26956b22
Thu 4 Dec 20254:52 pmRadio call14 min4bc75cdd
Thu 11 Dec 202511:53 amRadio call22 min83b1bc54
Thu 11 Dec 202512:16 pmRadio call11 min43e15f07
Thu 11 Dec 20251:27 pmRadio call21 minf4cb8dff
Fri 12 Dec 20253:34 pmRadio call19 min83c522a4
Sat 13 Dec 202510:56 amRadio call13 min005234fb
Sat 13 Dec 202511:06 amRadio call15 mince5ab522
Sat 13 Dec 202511:23 amTraining and testing3 min9732e4a6
Sat 13 Dec 202511:45 amTraining and testing3 min992bda0f
Sat 13 Dec 202512:55 pmRadio call8 min772d8c06
Sat 13 Dec 20251:14 pmRadio call12 mind24a4a39
Sat 13 Dec 20252:09 pmRadio call16 mincf4b6ccf
Sat 13 Dec 20254:36 pmRadio call9 min439c1b3e
Wed 17 Dec 20253:34 pmRadio call20 min2ce71ced
Thu 18 Dec 20254:21 pmTraining and testing10 mind07183a9
Fri 19 Dec 202511:10 amRadio call18 min37fd831f
Fri 19 Dec 20252:29 pmRadio call18 min4de54e04
Sat 20 Dec 202511:56 amRadio call18 min8465e3d5
Fri 26 Dec 20252:46 pmRadio call11 min466bde9a
Sat 27 Dec 20251:49 pmRadio call21 minac58fdfb
Tue 30 Dec 202510:53 amRadio call19 min0058765e
Tue 30 Dec 202511:55 amRadio call22 min9b1ee808
Tue 30 Dec 202512:10 pmTraining and testing19 minf85fdfbe
Tue 30 Dec 20251:12 pmRadio call19 min9c97e52e
Tue 30 Dec 20252:28 pmRadio call18 minb765ec0f
Tue 30 Dec 20253:31 pmTraining and testing15 minc532960f

All 33 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. "Pico-Union" 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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