drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

7:07 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:08 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 11 times on Thursday 28 May 2026, the first at 7:07 am and the last at 10:08 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. 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

Patrol support64%
Call for service27%
Training and testing9%

Flights, in order

11 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
7:07 am	Training and testing	1 min 05 s	`9bed5b77`
10:29 am	Patrol support	19 min	`23a9409b`
10:50 am	Patrol support	20 min	`88d473f4`
4:41 pm	Patrol support	10 min	`aad102f0`
5:16 pm	Patrol support	21 min	`c1744024`
6:27 pm	Patrol support	11 min	`835551f3`
7:09 pm	Call for service	16 min	`924956dc`
8:29 pm	Call for service	14 min	`2cc5242d`
9:12 pm	Patrol support	17 min	`a70ca475`
9:35 pm	Patrol support	11 min	`8912ad64`
10:08 pm	Call for service	16 min	`24f7d039`

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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