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Milwaukee, Wisconsin · one day

Sunday 30 August 2026

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

25

drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

8:08 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:14 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 25 times on Sunday 30 August 2026, the first at 8:08 am and the last at 10:14 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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. Training and testing48%
  2. Call for service40%
  3. Patrol support12%

Flights, in order

25 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
8:08 amTraining and testing1 min 13 s11f153cf
8:08 amTraining and testing33 sde859930
10:48 amPatrol support19 min52db0816
12:59 pmPatrol support4 min2864bf5f
3:22 pmTraining and testing26 min3285c009
3:24 pmTraining and testing24 mine94ee2a9
3:53 pmTraining and testing28 minf8161017
3:54 pmTraining and testing25 min1b494ea2
4:25 pmTraining and testing24 min9fecffab
4:26 pmTraining and testing14 mind8d81380
4:43 pmPatrol support26 min60a35c49
4:51 pmTraining and testing13 mindf968aaa
5:53 pmCall for service10 minf08e6782
6:18 pmCall for service9 mine99c4055
6:33 pmCall for service28 min62804a7f
6:50 pmTraining and testing27 min31936637
6:51 pmCall for service17 min39a582d9
7:04 pmTraining and testing28 min135c5fa7
7:09 pmCall for service7 min5988302e
7:20 pmTraining and testing28 min4a9d1a4a
7:25 pmCall for service17 min928e64b5
7:31 pmCall for service18 min5e277f56
9:23 pmCall for service24 min7ab22122
9:31 pmCall for service14 min0d687698
10:14 pmCall for service12 minbc3f3f98

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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