drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

3:19 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:50 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 16 times on Sunday 19 April 2026, the first at 3:19 am and the last at 11:50 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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

Call for service50%
Patrol support38%
Training and testing6%
Search6%

Flights, in order

16 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
3:19 am	Patrol support	17 min	`dbc4fbbc`
3:48 am	Patrol support	14 min	`68b92dad`
11:16 am	Training and testing	54 s	`909e4c30`
11:22 am	Patrol support	7 min	`e97af68d`
5:06 pm	Call for service	13 min	`030fb120`
5:20 pm	Patrol support	16 min	`78f7470e`
6:24 pm	Patrol support	15 min	`0db7bbbe`
6:51 pm	Call for service	9 min	`8736533b`
8:10 pm	Patrol support	12 min	`6432fa81`
8:26 pm	Call for service	10 min	`c3736b58`
8:49 pm	Call for service	16 min	`e4f21739`
9:01 pm	Call for service	8 min	`7621b328`
9:08 pm	Call for service	6 min	`1275dac0`
9:16 pm	Call for service	11 min	`b2e6e341`
10:01 pm	Call for service	17 min	`9e1aed0b`
11:50 pm	Search	3 min	`8e3aa4cf`

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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