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Milwaukee, Wisconsin · one day

Wednesday 13 August 2025

10 drone flights from Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

10

drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

2:14 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:25 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 10 times on Wednesday 13 August 2025, the first at 2:14 pm and the last at 9:25 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Events40%
  2. Other30%
  3. Training and testing30%

Flights, in order

10 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
2:14 pmOther22 s17b5e796
2:17 pmOther16 min9db8cb7b
3:13 pmOther18 minbe27d10c
6:13 pmTraining and testing6 min44a49d95
6:23 pmTraining and testing3 min7c16ef32
6:26 pmEvents25 minb97fbf12
8:10 pmEvents21 min3960820f
8:34 pmEvents21 minaf02d69d
9:04 pmEvents18 min231d29c3
9:25 pmTraining and testing20 min89df9a82

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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