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Milwaukee, Wisconsin · one day

Monday 3 August 2026

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

20

drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

12:09 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:16 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 20 times on Monday 3 August 2026, the first at 12:09 am and the last at 11:16 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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. Call for service45%
  2. Patrol support30%
  3. Training and testing15%
  4. Other10%

Flights, in order

20 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
12:09 amTraining and testing28 s151afc7d
8:12 amTraining and testing46 s32135efe
11:08 amTraining and testing1 min 14 sbedf8795
3:12 pmOther21 min9cd918fe
3:50 pmPatrol support20 min98e15898
4:16 pmCall for service20 min77dbb97f
4:20 pmOther15 mind19a3ba0
4:41 pmCall for service15 min1b85de7e
5:42 pmCall for service17 min3543d3cf
6:08 pmCall for service19 mina6895dc3
6:53 pmPatrol support10 min4ff73058
8:13 pmCall for service20 min2a3d339a
8:58 pmCall for service13 min825be525
9:02 pmCall for service16 mindcef680d
9:24 pmPatrol support23 mindbc4e7cb
9:26 pmCall for service19 mind323179a
9:45 pmCall for service12 min3a901639
9:48 pmPatrol support21 min5f3321db
10:19 pmPatrol support17 mindb101656
11:16 pmPatrol support15 minab4c09e5

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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