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Milwaukee, Wisconsin · one day

Tuesday 28 April 2026

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

25

drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

8:09 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:43 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 25 times on Tuesday 28 April 2026, the first at 8:09 am and the last at 10:43 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service48%
  2. Patrol support32%
  3. Training and testing12%
  4. Search4%
  5. Not stated4%

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
8:09 amTraining and testing57 sc42f31bf
8:10 amTraining and testing29 s65275d7f
8:38 amPatrol support16 min1aaacf2c
9:03 amPatrol support21 min7e7052d0
9:26 amSearch20 min9b22ea0f
11:32 amTraining and testing1 min 37 sd2dc0bb9
1:02 pmCall for service18 minb9486746
1:46 pmCall for service24 min1adca19f
3:02 pmCall for service12 mindd0caff4
3:35 pmPatrol support5 mined0bac04
3:42 pmPatrol support8 min8b84891a
4:00 pmPatrol support9 min42cb8c24
5:19 pmPatrol support14 min204de24c
5:49 pmCall for service12 mine5f1ef97
6:56 pmCall for service28 minc93063d7
7:10 pmCall for service13 min745f87d2
7:44 pmCall for service15 min2bb30a97
8:06 pmCall for service14 min97c6f8f6
8:26 pmCall for service10 minc079a88e
8:37 pmCall for service12 min122e5c6a
8:51 pmCall for service7 min67229cfa
9:08 pmPatrol support9 min3f202bd4
9:17 pmCall for service17 min089547be
10:00 pmNot stated23 min2b2c8589
10:43 pmPatrol support20 min8cdf53ae

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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