drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

9:57 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:33 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 18 times on Saturday 3 January 2026, the first at 9:57 am and the last at 11:33 pm CST, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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

Call for service44%
Patrol support39%
Training and testing17%

Flights, in order

18 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
9:57 am	Training and testing	3 min	`09490cf1`
10:28 am	Patrol support	17 min	`e7bcc51e`
11:38 am	Patrol support	21 min	`54f17dea`
12:59 pm	Patrol support	22 min	`b0f6c692`
2:43 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`1057c9f4`
3:01 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`46c91238`
3:15 pm	Call for service	16 min	`d2f87e68`
3:16 pm	Call for service	6 min	`0084a3bf`
4:06 pm	Call for service	16 min	`88ed1705`
5:41 pm	Patrol support	16 min	`4031be3c`
5:54 pm	Call for service	12 min	`6131dbc3`
6:29 pm	Call for service	15 min	`516554b0`
6:54 pm	Patrol support	7 min	`91326ae8`
9:49 pm	Call for service	16 min	`6c0f752f`
10:02 pm	Call for service	14 min	`16a35526`
10:46 pm	Call for service	15 min	`8fdcb43f`
11:10 pm	Patrol support	16 min	`01838057`
11:33 pm	Patrol support	16 min	`03585f8c`

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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