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Los Angeles, California

Pico-Union, April 2026

A neighborhood page. 36 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

36

drone flights crossed Pico-Union.

36

of them in April 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Pico-Union 36 times between 1 April 2026 and 30 April 2026, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 April 2026.

36 of the 36 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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

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

3% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

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 36 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call86%
  2. Call for service6%
  3. Training and testing6%
  4. Patrol support3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Apr 20265:55 pmRadio call15 min1d7c9616
Fri 3 Apr 20267:37 pmCall for service18 minb1a7ef0c
Mon 6 Apr 20265:34 pmRadio call18 min78d7334f
Tue 7 Apr 20262:01 pmTraining and testing1 min 21 sec40a04e
Tue 7 Apr 20264:25 pmRadio call14 min47d2fc82
Tue 7 Apr 20265:07 pmRadio call7 min85f5a63f
Tue 7 Apr 20265:43 pmRadio call16 min1ea8cd0e
Wed 8 Apr 20265:36 pmPatrol support9 minbc750928
Wed 8 Apr 20267:22 pmRadio call13 minee9512db
Thu 9 Apr 20264:27 pmRadio call13 min13524937
Thu 9 Apr 20265:12 pmRadio call15 min9fb059dc
Thu 9 Apr 20265:34 pmRadio call13 min06d11102
Sat 11 Apr 20268:42 pmRadio call13 min9236205c
Sun 12 Apr 20268:38 pmRadio call12 mine87300b0
Sun 12 Apr 202611:28 pmCall for service13 min51af9699
Wed 15 Apr 20261:55 pmRadio call8 min41367c8a
Sat 18 Apr 20261:29 pmRadio call18 min7a640853
Sat 18 Apr 20265:47 pmRadio call14 min28e9274e
Sun 19 Apr 20269:03 pmRadio call7 min18140ec0
Mon 20 Apr 20262:43 pmRadio call10 min9d3dbe1c
Wed 22 Apr 20261:27 pmRadio call12 minfb72dcd8
Wed 22 Apr 20262:24 pmRadio call12 min66c1bd08
Wed 22 Apr 20263:22 pmTraining and testing3 min00e6cef4
Wed 22 Apr 20265:51 pmRadio call11 min40774a13
Thu 23 Apr 20262:42 pmRadio call15 minbabd09f6
Fri 24 Apr 202612:52 pmRadio call12 min3b479614
Fri 24 Apr 20262:00 pmRadio call16 min19019de1
Fri 24 Apr 20266:48 pmRadio call15 min2e9565e1
Sat 25 Apr 202612:56 pmRadio call15 minb3069ea9
Sun 26 Apr 20264:26 pmRadio call12 minb3b7eb59
Mon 27 Apr 20261:13 pmRadio call9 min7bb3a046
Tue 28 Apr 20262:53 pmRadio call14 min29b67e2b
Wed 29 Apr 20266:08 pmRadio call16 mina1377491
Wed 29 Apr 20266:53 pmRadio call22 min4ce8edfd
Thu 30 Apr 20263:06 pmRadio call10 min3067b5fa
Thu 30 Apr 20266:49 pmRadio call17 min06ed7645

All 36 flights in April 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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