drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

12:50 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:42 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 39 times on Wednesday 2 September 2026, the first at 12:50 am and the last at 10:42 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

39 drawable flights of 39. 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

Training and testing74%
Call for service21%
Patrol support5%

Flights, in order

39 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
12:50 am	Call for service	17 min	`892be51b`
2:18 am	Patrol support	11 min	`0b631815`
9:12 am	Training and testing	1 min 19 s	`c4b7f674`
11:41 am	Training and testing	11 min	`efce64e9`
12:21 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`be423b2e`
12:33 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`9fc8211f`
12:33 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`1de95246`
12:42 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`edc7b988`
1:03 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`c5c10e49`
1:03 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`32511687`
1:15 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`de188a45`
1:15 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`eb5bd29f`
1:21 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`502ce6bd`
1:27 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`36c6626c`
2:29 pm	Training and testing	27 min	`d9f3b92e`
2:31 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`8b565502`
2:31 pm	Training and testing	17 s	`c2e801aa`
2:34 pm	Training and testing	14 min	`4ac559c5`
2:43 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`de5a93c2`
2:51 pm	Training and testing	14 min	`836337fc`
2:58 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`0a0c7d82`
2:59 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`01e8ce91`
3:09 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`5deba2f1`
3:10 pm	Training and testing	12 min	`9655d9bd`
3:10 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`5261960d`
3:19 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`021cd965`
3:21 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`0b5cbdaa`
3:24 pm	Call for service	10 min	`06298ba5`
3:25 pm	Training and testing	28 s	`1a977184`
3:26 pm	Training and testing	12 min	`2152e25b`
3:27 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`d855ae24`
3:31 pm	Training and testing	16 min	`2a86720e`
3:35 pm	Call for service	17 min	`bfb2204a`
5:19 pm	Call for service	23 min	`59e8c04c`
6:38 pm	Call for service	9 min	`35728c19`
7:59 pm	Call for service	19 min	`d780cc9f`
9:37 pm	Patrol support	14 min	`bce4b4e5`
10:11 pm	Call for service	16 min	`a0eaa787`
10:42 pm	Call for service	6 min	`89f7e95b`

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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