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Milwaukee, Wisconsin · one day

Saturday 2 May 2026

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

19

drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

11:36 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:20 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 19 times on Saturday 2 May 2026, the first at 11:36 am and the last at 11:20 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 19. 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 service42%
  2. Patrol support42%
  3. Other11%
  4. Training and testing5%

Flights, in order

19 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
11:36 amTraining and testing1 min 32 sb1a75fed
11:41 amOther25 minb10169e4
12:15 pmOther27 min1a471dc5
12:46 pmCall for service22 min027cb4d9
1:11 pmCall for service20 min4d80cdcd
3:25 pmPatrol support17 min55b9c6de
3:44 pmPatrol support19 min41f8e94d
5:33 pmCall for service16 minc686253e
5:54 pmPatrol support13 minb3df9c99
6:39 pmCall for service2 min05373470
7:13 pmPatrol support15 minc20326ea
7:37 pmPatrol support22 min9d4c6565
8:01 pmPatrol support13 mine36fa7e4
8:23 pmCall for service17 mindc75120c
9:23 pmCall for service18 min20ee40cc
9:45 pmPatrol support14 min2a15466a
10:16 pmPatrol support11 min59644933
10:26 pmCall for service11 min59687b2f
11:20 pmCall for service18 min4e6bb653

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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