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Los Angeles, California

Sawtelle, August 2025

A neighborhood page. 41 of the 12,244 flights in Los Angeles Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2025.

41

drone flights crossed Sawtelle.

41

of them in August 2025.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sawtelle 41 times between 23 August 2025 and 29 August 2025, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2025.

41 of the 41 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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.
SawtelleOne 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 (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 41 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Radio call68%
  2. Training and testing27%
  3. Patrol support2%
  4. Not stated2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2025

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 23 Aug 20254:06 pmTraining and testing14 min33fdce47
Sat 23 Aug 20254:23 pmTraining and testing13 min8a74627a
Tue 26 Aug 20252:23 pmTraining and testing1 min 24 sb99344e3
Tue 26 Aug 20252:29 pmTraining and testing1 min 56 s8b9660c1
Tue 26 Aug 20254:15 pmTraining and testing8 minafa3b0e7
Tue 26 Aug 20255:26 pmRadio call13 min062e013c
Tue 26 Aug 20256:33 pmRadio call10 min20ac1bb4
Tue 26 Aug 20257:07 pmRadio call10 min80f9848d
Tue 26 Aug 20257:36 pmRadio call20 min329ed47e
Tue 26 Aug 20258:52 pmRadio call17 minc3d774e8
Wed 27 Aug 202512:33 pmTraining and testing3 mind01abe9b
Wed 27 Aug 202512:39 pmTraining and testing2 min00ed2c3c
Wed 27 Aug 20251:22 pmRadio call19 min83670cd9
Wed 27 Aug 20256:45 pmRadio call17 mine913a962
Wed 27 Aug 20257:36 pmRadio call9 mincce55cc2
Wed 27 Aug 20257:58 pmRadio call26 minc982af8a
Wed 27 Aug 20258:16 pmRadio call18 mindb44c5cc
Thu 28 Aug 20256:45 amTraining and testing1 min 44 sa3d85525
Thu 28 Aug 20256:52 amTraining and testing1 min 55 s086a884a
Thu 28 Aug 20257:30 amPatrol support14 min21d1c317
Thu 28 Aug 20259:50 amRadio call9 min4bd76c0a
Thu 28 Aug 202510:49 amRadio call13 min0318cae5
Thu 28 Aug 202512:27 pmRadio call17 min58cd6df1
Thu 28 Aug 202512:56 pmRadio call17 min3ec6be47
Thu 28 Aug 20251:16 pmTraining and testing4 minede3d12f
Thu 28 Aug 20251:46 pmRadio call18 mincb26d7ab
Thu 28 Aug 20253:25 pmRadio call13 min7c42cacc
Thu 28 Aug 20253:39 pmRadio call18 min3e315220
Thu 28 Aug 20254:07 pmRadio call7 minb1e16d92
Thu 28 Aug 20254:26 pmRadio call17 min9abcab38
Thu 28 Aug 20256:22 pmTraining and testing1 min 45 sf248cdcc
Thu 28 Aug 20256:56 pmRadio call16 mina3d942f7
Thu 28 Aug 20257:09 pmRadio call18 min55bffc2c
Fri 29 Aug 202512:18 pmRadio call6 mincb3442b2
Fri 29 Aug 202512:27 pmNot stated4 min384e6245
Fri 29 Aug 20251:48 pmRadio call14 minacf09c90
Fri 29 Aug 20252:13 pmRadio call11 min5a2d8be5
Fri 29 Aug 20253:59 pmRadio call9 min6777652e
Fri 29 Aug 20255:03 pmRadio call26 min347a7d1c
Fri 29 Aug 20255:23 pmRadio call13 minc08c88f5
Fri 29 Aug 20257:14 pmRadio call23 minde55b965

All 41 flights in August 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. "Sawtelle" 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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