drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

12:14 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:33 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 21 times on Monday 31 August 2026, the first at 12:14 am and the last at 11:33 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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

Search38%
Call for service29%
Training and testing19%
Patrol support14%

Flights, in order

21 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
12:14 am	Call for service	22 min	`b988901f`
8:11 am	Training and testing	38 s	`199f407a`
9:13 am	Training and testing	1 min 53 s	`636ddd5b`
11:31 am	Training and testing	1 min 22 s	`6eadfa1d`
12:45 pm	Search	21 min	`566580e1`
1:09 pm	Patrol support	9 min	`35f75db5`
1:11 pm	Search	23 min	`b7382b28`
1:33 pm	Search	22 min	`b188a6a5`
1:52 pm	Search	14 min	`579a2d14`
2:08 pm	Search	12 min	`a3dfb32d`
3:14 pm	Search	3 min	`05deb222`
3:51 pm	Call for service	16 min	`637c2e7e`
4:26 pm	Call for service	15 min	`1b018d4c`
5:34 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`4a6303f4`
6:33 pm	Call for service	16 min	`3a21c6af`
8:13 pm	Call for service	17 min	`d0680e10`
8:23 pm	Search	21 min	`2d5b106d`
8:26 pm	Patrol support	17 min	`fd5fb669`
8:48 pm	Search	25 min	`e359aef6`
9:23 pm	Patrol support	19 min	`549bad32`
11:33 pm	Call for service	4 min	`8b93589c`

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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