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Milwaukee, Wisconsin · one day

Tuesday 7 April 2026

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

31

drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

8:01 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:38 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 31 times on Tuesday 7 April 2026, the first at 8:01 am and the last at 10:38 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

31 drawable flights of 31. 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. Training and testing42%
  2. Call for service32%
  3. Patrol support16%
  4. Not stated10%

Flights, in order

31 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
8:01 amCall for service11 mind9440def
8:09 amNot stated28 s28900536
9:33 amTraining and testing24 minf5f1474e
9:37 amTraining and testing23 mind9a0106c
10:06 amTraining and testing26 min502f945d
10:10 amTraining and testing27 min04031a32
11:30 amCall for service13 mince216a8f
2:13 pmTraining and testing1 min 02 s1e15d07f
2:18 pmTraining and testing46 s85b077c9
2:22 pmTraining and testing23 minffadc086
2:49 pmTraining and testing36 s3c3efa50
2:50 pmTraining and testing26 min4d3893af
2:58 pmPatrol support11 min99765556
3:36 pmTraining and testing48 sf6e1c916
3:37 pmNot stated26 min38f01ec7
3:38 pmTraining and testing35 sbf090e00
3:42 pmTraining and testing23 mina1576dfa
4:07 pmPatrol support8 min2f961aac
4:08 pmNot stated24 min2640e479
4:32 pmPatrol support16 min89fbaa3d
4:41 pmPatrol support12 min0c48b386
5:30 pmCall for service15 min4068f9a5
5:46 pmCall for service12 min564b72b3
6:10 pmCall for service14 min8aeed128
6:21 pmCall for service1 min 29 s26b821c8
6:34 pmPatrol support14 min1278410e
7:45 pmCall for service12 min2fc8c546
8:21 pmCall for service9 min22d46e9d
8:28 pmTraining and testing1 min 11 sef681e96
10:31 pmCall for service10 mind9379308
10:38 pmCall for service6 min4eeb0bb8

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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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