8
drone flights over Milwaukee that day.
12:28 am
first takeoff; the last was at 7:22 pm.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Milwaukee police drones flew 8 times on Friday 7 August 2026, the first at 12:28 am and the last at 7:22 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:28 am | Call for service | 17 min | a886b09b |
| 12:47 am | Call for service | 21 min | 667b9206 |
| 3:08 am | Training and testing | 26 s | 0767c18e |
| 8:11 am | Training and testing | 1 min 18 s | eafca877 |
| 4:36 pm | Patrol support | 15 min | 6554d6ff |
| 5:14 pm | Call for service | 18 min | 71faa3b0 |
| 5:54 pm | Patrol support | 11 min | f5c54b59 |
| 7:22 pm | Patrol support | 13 min | fcdbfecc |
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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