7
drone flights over Milwaukee that day.
5:36 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 10:28 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Milwaukee police drones flew 7 times on Friday 18 July 2025, the first at 5:36 pm and the last at 10:28 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
7 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.
| Takeoff (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:36 pm | Call for service | 5 min | 1d9ad135 |
| 6:19 pm | Call for service | 5 min | eeac3f65 |
| 7:32 pm | Training and testing | 9 min | 19cf3277 |
| 10:03 pm | Patrol support | 17 min | 5b6f0c88 |
| 10:06 pm | Patrol support | 19 min | da21aa74 |
| 10:21 pm | Patrol support | 12 min | 3e22d049 |
| 10:28 pm | Patrol support | 7 min | 63cfd256 |
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
- 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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