drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

3:33 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:38 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 18 times on Wednesday 29 July 2026, the first at 3:33 am and the last at 10:38 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 service50%
Patrol support28%
Training and testing22%

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
3:33 am	Training and testing	23 s	`83c97b31`
8:15 am	Training and testing	2 min	`6873eebf`
8:57 am	Patrol support	21 min	`a9164506`
9:19 am	Patrol support	13 min	`44b72da3`
9:33 am	Patrol support	12 min	`e8228787`
11:20 am	Training and testing	55 s	`88907de3`
11:39 am	Patrol support	14 min	`484222b3`
2:42 pm	Call for service	19 min	`f0864301`
2:58 pm	Call for service	23 min	`28209c6c`
4:11 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`fb0f45e9`
6:48 pm	Call for service	5 min	`8ce27efc`
6:51 pm	Patrol support	8 min	`17a3edd0`
7:41 pm	Call for service	15 min	`f48a9bad`
9:00 pm	Call for service	21 min	`4902db66`
9:28 pm	Call for service	16 min	`e4133ee9`
10:06 pm	Call for service	16 min	`347ca7f3`
10:26 pm	Call for service	21 min	`03c46fad`
10:38 pm	Call for service	13 min	`e8b24dab`

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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