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Milwaukee, Wisconsin · one day

Thursday 23 April 2026

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

25

drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

3:22 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:15 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 25 times on Thursday 23 April 2026, the first at 3:22 pm and the last at 11:15 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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. Call for service60%
  2. Patrol support36%
  3. Training and testing4%

Flights, in order

25 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
3:22 pmPatrol support12 min39167acb
3:30 pmPatrol support11 min902e0c81
4:09 pmCall for service8 min85b2afb1
4:21 pmTraining and testing1 min 44 sed5c8fa3
4:35 pmCall for service22 minb6b4e54e
4:46 pmPatrol support4 minc2f232c0
5:06 pmPatrol support9 minca1a3f54
5:24 pmPatrol support7 min550fbd35
5:55 pmCall for service12 mine7359c0c
6:03 pmCall for service18 min53b6f941
6:36 pmPatrol support14 min67ebab32
7:25 pmPatrol support20 min22262723
7:32 pmCall for service14 min4d3ef52a
7:53 pmPatrol support7 min85658822
8:05 pmPatrol support21 mine7317396
8:39 pmCall for service16 minbe2f2bb9
8:49 pmCall for service18 minf7a4edc4
9:02 pmCall for service18 min9bb1ee6e
9:33 pmCall for service8 min3383599d
9:56 pmCall for service15 min8cf1cdea
10:22 pmCall for service20 mind0e0885c
10:46 pmCall for service9 min16658f65
10:59 pmCall for service12 min40aaa6c4
11:12 pmCall for service1 min 11 s82b21285
11:15 pmCall for service5 min880218ac

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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