drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

1:24 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:41 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 19 times on Tuesday 16 June 2026, the first at 1:24 am and the last at 11:41 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service63%
Patrol support32%
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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
1:24 am	Patrol support	17 min	`ba3de0b9`
8:16 am	Call for service	6 min	`e345458d`
8:26 am	Call for service	19 min	`f0308fff`
11:27 am	Training and testing	1 min 18 s	`416d316b`
1:55 pm	Call for service	7 min	`ec54add4`
3:38 pm	Patrol support	10 min	`b322eb13`
4:32 pm	Call for service	16 min	`669cc5b3`
4:58 pm	Patrol support	16 min	`b7561ee5`
5:33 pm	Patrol support	12 min	`72f5e8f6`
6:22 pm	Call for service	13 min	`3445bde4`
6:39 pm	Patrol support	20 min	`b6481fb2`
6:55 pm	Call for service	16 min	`8459fa5a`
7:52 pm	Call for service	9 min	`84acac7a`
8:38 pm	Call for service	8 min	`ff10f072`
9:37 pm	Call for service	17 min	`81bf52bc`
9:39 pm	Patrol support	18 min	`68a428f4`
10:00 pm	Call for service	10 min	`b513c1d9`
10:35 pm	Call for service	15 min	`a232cff5`
11:41 pm	Call for service	21 min	`f2f11b53`

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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