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Milwaukee, Wisconsin · one day

Monday 20 April 2026

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

24

drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

8:07 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:33 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 24 times on Monday 20 April 2026, the first at 8:07 am and the last at 10:33 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service50%
  2. Patrol support42%
  3. Training and testing8%

Flights, in order

24 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
8:07 amTraining and testing3 min8fe6cbe7
8:13 amTraining and testing43 sfe906f09
10:40 amCall for service11 min43323e02
12:21 pmPatrol support14 min9b1645bb
3:03 pmPatrol support17 minad5b326d
3:29 pmPatrol support9 minb2437eb3
3:44 pmCall for service11 min595a23f9
3:50 pmCall for service17 min5a9aaf4f
5:32 pmPatrol support11 min6aca5eee
6:09 pmCall for service13 min7a716dd1
7:04 pmPatrol support7 minf417d455
7:13 pmPatrol support13 min163cef79
7:17 pmCall for service17 min2b8f74d9
8:26 pmPatrol support13 min22279d68
8:40 pmPatrol support7 min9e2328de
8:45 pmCall for service8 min33205631
9:03 pmCall for service15 min46c08cf5
9:16 pmPatrol support20 minf29fe450
9:34 pmCall for service8 minc46cb43c
9:41 pmPatrol support10 min606f2c12
9:42 pmCall for service19 min1b919cc8
9:46 pmCall for service17 minefbd6afb
10:00 pmCall for service12 min1a964fef
10:33 pmCall for service8 min0f49ffbe

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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