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Los Angeles, California

Pico-Union, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 35 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

35

drone flights crossed Pico-Union.

35

of them in January 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Pico-Union 35 times between 3 January 2026 and 29 January 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 January 2026.

35 of the 35 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.
Pico-UnionOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

6 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 35 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call71%
  2. Training and testing23%
  3. Call for service3%
  4. Patrol support3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 3 Jan 202611:49 amRadio call16 mind66954fa
Wed 7 Jan 20262:27 pmRadio call19 min7a9d0c94
Wed 7 Jan 20264:58 pmRadio call11 minf6351a3e
Wed 7 Jan 20266:15 pmRadio call16 mina4e011f9
Thu 8 Jan 202611:08 amTraining and testing2 min86c3dc57
Thu 8 Jan 202611:23 amTraining and testing1 min 57 sf743bd7d
Thu 8 Jan 202612:23 pmRadio call15 min2b256417
Thu 8 Jan 20261:55 pmRadio call12 min728270b2
Thu 8 Jan 20262:12 pmRadio call12 min76d2ceb7
Fri 9 Jan 202612:35 pmRadio call12 min2918ba25
Fri 9 Jan 20262:49 pmRadio call9 min572e85c0
Fri 9 Jan 20265:47 pmCall for service16 minc7586dcd
Thu 15 Jan 202611:36 amTraining and testing1 min 57 sd61565e3
Thu 15 Jan 202611:49 amTraining and testing1 min 36 s8f07fe59
Thu 15 Jan 202612:40 pmRadio call14 minc741f6c8
Thu 15 Jan 20261:22 pmRadio call6 min225f65fe
Thu 15 Jan 20261:35 pmRadio call7 min217530c5
Thu 15 Jan 20262:25 pmRadio call13 min621cd490
Thu 15 Jan 20263:06 pmRadio call22 min6380d512
Thu 15 Jan 20264:16 pmRadio call10 min1368397b
Thu 15 Jan 20265:02 pmRadio call11 min48cfb80a
Thu 15 Jan 20265:49 pmRadio call5 mineb60d4a7
Wed 21 Jan 20264:47 pmRadio call16 min8b6d2199
Thu 22 Jan 202612:32 pmTraining and testing2 mine8f195b0
Thu 22 Jan 202612:37 pmTraining and testing3 min3ece5bc8
Thu 22 Jan 20261:06 pmTraining and testing1 min 25 s99f52ecf
Thu 22 Jan 20262:22 pmRadio call10 minb510974d
Thu 22 Jan 20264:26 pmTraining and testing4 min1e065484
Fri 23 Jan 20262:21 pmPatrol support18 min5e52dc92
Sat 24 Jan 202611:31 amRadio call19 min9b4dbc8f
Sat 24 Jan 20261:14 pmRadio call18 min2865fce9
Sat 24 Jan 20261:15 pmRadio call15 min91fc2108
Wed 28 Jan 202611:50 amRadio call18 minfa46490d
Wed 28 Jan 20264:36 pmRadio call13 mina34d98b9
Thu 29 Jan 202611:15 amRadio call13 minb43d7f54

All 35 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. "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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