drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

12:18 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:40 am.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 9 times on Saturday 27 December 2025, the first at 12:18 am and the last at 4:40 am CST, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

9 drawable flights of 9. 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, CST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing100%

Flights, in order

9 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 (CST)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:18 am	Training and testing	16 min	`9ce9faef`
12:59 am	Training and testing	12 min	`430be961`
1:13 am	Training and testing	10 min	`2d52f4e1`
1:46 am	Training and testing	10 min	`7676ff1b`
2:59 am	Training and testing	13 min	`a5502be7`
3:18 am	Training and testing	18 min	`325ff454`
3:32 am	Training and testing	11 min	`5696422f`
4:11 am	Training and testing	18 min	`671d306f`
4:40 am	Training and testing	13 min	`d8e8d5c5`

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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