drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

8:11 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:52 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 18 times on Tuesday 19 May 2026, the first at 8:11 am and the last at 10:52 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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 service56%
Patrol support39%
Training and testing6%

Flights, in order

18 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
8:11 am	Training and testing	36 s	`bd33ade5`
11:47 am	Patrol support	8 min	`74515e53`
1:16 pm	Patrol support	19 min	`bf0b58af`
4:15 pm	Patrol support	10 min	`6a4b88f7`
5:00 pm	Call for service	5 min	`bce07e4c`
5:49 pm	Call for service	8 min	`8b4bcf1c`
6:09 pm	Patrol support	13 min	`688efee2`
6:39 pm	Patrol support	15 min	`82c2556d`
6:57 pm	Call for service	11 min	`220d9cc2`
8:39 pm	Call for service	10 min	`fbc7a2e2`
8:52 pm	Patrol support	7 min	`eb47d9a0`
9:06 pm	Patrol support	12 min	`c4756e7f`
9:20 pm	Call for service	12 min	`f6fa6af6`
9:46 pm	Call for service	9 min	`748b8e6b`
9:59 pm	Call for service	11 min	`3f4f437c`
10:14 pm	Call for service	8 min	`d30c90d9`
10:40 pm	Call for service	11 min	`1a936649`
10:52 pm	Call for service	11 min	`c43848ef`

How this page is made

Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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