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Milwaukee, Wisconsin · one day

Sunday 23 August 2026

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

11

drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

12:33 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:11 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 11 times on Sunday 23 August 2026, the first at 12:33 am and the last at 10:11 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. 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 service64%
  2. Patrol support27%
  3. Events9%

Flights, in order

11 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
12:33 amPatrol support7 min07675ca7
12:53 amEvents9 mina83fe716
3:37 pmCall for service18 min94ecec18
4:46 pmPatrol support16 min99d06247
6:19 pmPatrol support9 min50217715
8:37 pmCall for service18 minbbcbdc74
8:50 pmCall for service14 min85123479
9:05 pmCall for service13 min92dd440b
9:24 pmCall for service16 min2366829a
9:57 pmCall for service15 mina025cba5
10:11 pmCall for service23 min4d1582c7

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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