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Milwaukee, Wisconsin · one day

Sunday 26 July 2026

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

13

drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

12:24 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:35 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 13 times on Sunday 26 July 2026, the first at 12:24 am and the last at 10:35 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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

  1. Patrol support38%
  2. Training and testing31%
  3. Call for service15%
  4. Events15%

Flights, in order

13 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
12:24 amTraining and testing27 s7279ed45
2:50 pmPatrol support—0c07aa39
3:34 pmPatrol support6 minab03cbf5
3:39 pmTraining and testing4 min903b8dc8
5:56 pmTraining and testing7 min877d58ba
6:47 pmPatrol support17 min89e0d8b8
7:18 pmTraining and testing31 s18d5c820
7:58 pmCall for service16 min5aeae435
8:11 pmEvents5 min46a97409
8:12 pmEvents6 min8cc6704b
9:17 pmCall for service14 mine28d9b04
10:10 pmPatrol support12 min43b13e4c
10:35 pmPatrol support14 minac6bb3c3

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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