drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

3:13 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:04 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 19 times on Sunday 5 July 2026, the first at 3:13 am and the last at 11:04 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

Events37%
Call for service26%
Patrol support21%
Training and testing16%

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
3:13 am	Call for service	30 s	`3bd17675`
3:24 am	Call for service	15 min	`0d424607`
3:40 am	Call for service	19 min	`d95aee54`
8:10 am	Training and testing	43 s	`91d0d7b2`
8:12 am	Training and testing	1 min 06 s	`e8053589`
4:27 pm	Patrol support	18 min	`bc540cc2`
5:44 pm	Patrol support	15 min	`1635ee29`
6:53 pm	Call for service	13 min	`978cecb0`
7:17 pm	Training and testing	27 s	`e6b136cf`
7:25 pm	Patrol support	17 min	`9af3f2c1`
8:33 pm	Patrol support	18 min	`e5212aad`
8:36 pm	Events	27 min	`cf332ca2`
9:06 pm	Events	27 min	`ca1df41e`
9:37 pm	Events	25 min	`c5e66452`
9:55 pm	Call for service	12 min	`728a6573`
10:04 pm	Events	25 min	`625fdcd7`
10:12 pm	Events	23 min	`da9a6738`
10:36 pm	Events	24 min	`53d029f0`
11:04 pm	Events	20 min	`a54fbf5c`

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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